Sending ill-prepared soldiers to a territory they know nothing of to tackle Naxals is akin to the practice of throwing men into rivers as sacrifices to appease gods.
08 April 2010For 40 long hours, a house in a small village 25 km from Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow became a battlezone. Inside a single room, a man fought two fierce battles—one with the police and another with himself.
26 February 2010One man’s life in the Valley suggests how terror attacks have become a commercial proposition for local trouble makers looking for a quick buck.
11 February 2010For all her mushiness, how did Pakistan-born Mushaal Mullick fall in love with Kashmiri militant-turned-separatist leader Yasin Malik? The inside story.
28 January 2010Amitava Kumar’s book deals with one of the most complex problems of our time: crimes committed by the State in the garb of fighting a war on terror.
27 January 2010Five brave policemen who have broken the back of militancy in Kashmir.
13 January 2010A Kashmiri who fell in love with a Jammu businessman across the religious divide seeks justice after he was killed by the police in Srinagar.
02 December 2009Dhume’s book serves as an apt portrait of an Indonesia torn between love for Osama bin Laden and Demi Moore
02 December 2009Unable to earn their livelihood, a number of former militants in Kashmir are contemplating rejoining the ‘Jihad’.
18 November 2009How long do we go on congratulating ourselves for our resilience? Can we ever hit back at terror? Our intelligence and response systems are still in disarray, our shores remain extremely porous. India needs to get its act together very quickly
18 November 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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