In the last week of December, as soon as news broke that India voted at the UN general assembly in favour of the resolution against the Trump administration’s decision to
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Category: National Interest
Doklam stand-off: China yields, but India can’t afford to relax
On August 28, India’s ministry of external affairs (MEA) and China’s ministry of foreign affairs announced the end of the stand-off between the troops of the two countries at Doka
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In Nirbhaya case, gruesome crime meets grisly ‘justice’ in Supreme Court. Mob celebrates.
When the banner is unfurled, all the reasons go inside the trumpet. — Ukrainian proverb As the Supreme Court of India upheld the death sentence awarded to the four men
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INS Betwa accident: Is the Indian Navy a serious military force?
The toppling of INS Betwa, a Brahmaputra-class guided-missile frigate, puts a huge note of interrogation on the Indian Navy – a force on whose competency rests not only India’s maritime
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Musings on free speech and possible limits
The second half of 2010 saw some great online debates, fights and rants on an individual’s right of expression and limits to it, much fuelled by Arundhati Roy’s controversial essay
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