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General Rawat was a transformer and not a mere reformer – a tribute from a vocal critic

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
General Rawat, like all soldiers, understood that critique is never personal, it is professional. He even wrote to me when I criticised him.

Ajit Doval is wrong. Civil society not dangerous, we pushed back militants in Meghalaya

Patricia Mukhim -
Ajit Doval thinks civil society is the new frontier of war. But ‘Shillong We Care’, a small group of citizens, stood up to militants and extortion.

Ajit Doval was my batchmate, but his understanding of Constitution, civil society is flawed

M.G. Devasahayam -
Doval's statements reflect that he thinks India is still a colonial monarchy, where people are subjects, and not a democracy, where they are citizens.

Why PM Modi in Army uniform distracts from India’s real goals

Lt General Prakash Menon -
Putin, Erdogan, and Xi Jinping have all worn military uniforms. But it’s different when PM Modi does it.

I am offshore Pakistani General. My establishment beat India in Pandora Papers

General X -
We may say Indians are our enemies, but the Pakistani Generals well know how important India is to our offshore accounts.

CDS Rawat meets US counterpart General Milley at Pentagon, holds talks on regional security

Lalit K Jha -
The two leaders reaffirmed the need for greater military-to-military cooperation between India & US, and agreed to continued ties in training exercises & creating more opportunities.

Gen Rawat’s ‘clash of civilisation’ row shows military should be seen but not heard in press

Lt General Prakash Menon -
Media appearances of Gen Bipin Rawat, both as COAS and CDS, have left an avoidable trail of faux pas and opinions that have generated needless controversies.

India’s first naval aviator Yaduvansh Narayan Singh remained in shadows. It can change now

Angad Singh -
From being the first Indian carrier pilot to being the first to command an Indian naval air squadron, the man ticked all the boxes over half a century ago.

Quality of India’s military leadership under test. Moral fibre can overcome political bias

Lt General Prakash Menon -
Merit or seniority? Power to select senior military leaders must be left to politicians.

Take Indian Army out of counterinsurgency. It has to tackle leaner, modern PLA

Rajesh Rajagopalan -
India’s defence planners need to ask themselves what the purpose of the Army is — to fight internal battles or external?
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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Johan Jose -
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

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Economy

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

Tejas Bhatotia -
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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