This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
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.
General, you have very succinctly summarized the situation in your last sentence. Now the key is to get the bureaucrats in the MHA to put objectives/targets into black and white -but why should the babu want to get evaluated against metrics when he has played the politician against the military against the separatists for decades and got away to plum post retirement berths. The sooner the military realizes its out there on the point on its own so much the better for it. A highly structured and disciplined force attuned to achievement of mission objective has been allowed to be misused by generations of COAS’s who have only dreams of Governorship in their gun sights.
General, you have very succinctly summarized the situation in your last sentence. Now the key is to get the bureaucrats in the MHA to put objectives/targets into black and white -but why should the babu want to get evaluated against metrics when he has played the politician against the military against the separatists for decades and got away to plum post retirement berths. The sooner the military realizes its out there on the point on its own so much the better for it. A highly structured and disciplined force attuned to achievement of mission objective has been allowed to be misused by generations of COAS’s who have only dreams of Governorship in their gun sights.
The general has given the most contemporary and brilliant piece of suggestions for looking into this long complicated issue. It’s time to address