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POLITICS
| 8-minute read
It's the economy: Kashmiris are being suppressed and Pakistan or ISIS is not the reason
Kashmir has suddenly been locked down, its people suppressed, its leaders held. But why now?
POLITICS
| 4-minute read
Amarnath Yatra Suspension: Given the Yatra's top-notch security, the threat perception was clearly huge
Our forces guarding the Amarnath Yatra do a stellar job while battling extraordinarily hard conditions. For the Yatra to thus be cancelled, despite such security, the danger had to be huge.
POLITICS
| 4-minute read
Kashmir is paradise broken: Kashmiris are being subjected to strange mind games and stranger diktats by the govt
As pilgrims and tourists are asked to suddenly leave Kashmir, amidst a massive troop build-up, locals are on edge. Rumours multiply and the queues of panicked people are hellish.
POLITICS
| 8-minute read
Shooting Fire in Kargil: When India's determined artillery put the love of Allah in Pakistan's troops
Kargil was also won with the relentless artillery of the Indian army, which rained fire on the Pakistanis night and day, in an offensive last matched by its intensity only in World War 2.
POLITICS
| 3-minute read
Kargil: How the best tribute to our Indian heroes came from an awestruck Pakistani
July 26 marks 20 years of the Kargil war which went on for 85 days and saw 537 Indian soldiers die. But only after they repulsed every Pakistani intruder, yard by yard, relentlessly.
POLITICS
| 6-minute read
The Kargil Conflict of 1999: How Pakistan gave shape to its biggest military blunder
The Indian army needs to be forever vigilant against any Pakistani misadventure.
How the IAF hit Balakot
Presenting an exclusive edited excerpt from Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh's book India's Most Fearless-2.
POLITICS
| 6-minute read
World Cup 2019: Why I've stopped watching India play cricket
Once known as the gentleman’s game, the sport has turned bats into weapons for hyper-nationalism and for advertising opportunities. This is now war, of a different kind.
POLITICS
| 2-minute read
India’s Infantry Combat Vehicles project may just die from apathy
With the Army failing to convince the bureaucracy to push the project through, it will float in an eternal orbit.
LIFE
| 2-minute read
