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Thursday, December 18, 2025
TopicIndian Army

Topic: Indian Army

Army’s new Kashmir challenge: mob violence after braid choppings

Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) -
There are enough people ready to shoot amateur videos of these mob attacks on the army and send them across the border for propaganda usage.

Post-operation Prognosis

Shekhar Gupta -
If on the surgical strikes anniversary we are still arguing whether or not these happened as claimed, and not what these achieved since, it shows a shrinking of our strategic minds.

Surgical strikes showed India had exhausted its strategic patience

Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd) -
What India needs to do is ensure that Pakistan’s ‘high effect low cost war’ becomes a ‘low effect high cost war’.

Despite lack of details, surgical strikes signalled Modi’s aggressive diplomacy

Zahid Hussain -
The calculation that India can afford this brinkmanship like surgical strikes is a costly gamble.

India shouldn’t hesitate to strike back at Pakistan if it has adequate evidence

Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) -
There have been multiple attempts to attack India around the anniversary of the 2016 surgical strikes. India shouldn't hesitate to strike back

Surgical strikes were well executed, but aimed at appeasing a domestic audience

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
At last the government has come up with a strategy of "compellance" against Pakistan, but has it come up with a plan to deal with what comes after? 

Surgical strikes have given Indian Army retaliatory space across LoC

Ankit Panda -
The surgical strikes indicated a threshold for Indian response. Kashmir, however, will continue to simmer.

‘Letters from Kargil’: A fresh perspective that humanises the faceless soldier

Neera Majumdar -
Diksha Dwivedi’s book shares letters from soldiers to their kin during the 1999 Kargil War, sometimes even moments before death.

No more foreign govt-funded courses for Indian military officers: Centre

Pranab Dhal Samanta -
Uncomfortable with other countries cultivating Indian military officers, government says it’ll pay for an international course if justified. The defence ministry has barred armed forces...

Lesson from Uri attack, a year on: Avoid fortress mentality

Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) -
There are no new lessons to be learnt from the Uri attack, it is now a question of implementation and resources being allocated. 
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Opinion

What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

MGNREGA was democratic state-building. VB-GRAMG turns welfare back to mai-baapism

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Opposition must debate utility, provisions of VB-GRAMG. Look beyond the name

Economy

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

Udit Hinduja -
RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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