Since India has the advantage now of choosing the place, time, or the mode, the options are many. Breakaway provinces (KPK, the Durand ‘zone’, Baluchistan, G-B), civil unrest, Punjabi racism, economic turmoil – it is almost an open season with the right kind of intent and strategy.

Proxy wars have existed for a long time, but the Afghan conflict marked the most notable return of proxy warfare in contemporary times.

One of the common temptations that I submit to every year as my birthday approaches is to Google up the famous Aries of our times. The throw-up remains cluttered with the usual assortment of the well-known: Charlie Chaplin, Eric Clapton, Robert Downey Jr, or Mukesh Ambani and Akshay Kumar closer home. However, this year, and […]

What is the West’s interest in the Rahul Gandhi defamation case and the court verdict?

As the conflict in Ukraine begins to look like a key marker paging the end of unipolarity, one cannot help but look back at two of the four big miscalculations of the USA

Russia has kept its military presence in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia against Georgian wishes.

Transnistria has an ammunition dump in a place called Cobasna -- arguably one of the largest ammo dumps in Europe.

How the world has changed since Russia decided to act in response to NATO-EU’s series of betrayals on Feb 24 last year.

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov was an informer of KGB (Soviet Union’s main security agency), whose official cover was as a journalist for the Soviet Novosti Press Agency. He was posted in India during the 60-70s when he gave his KGB handlers the slip and defected to the West. He flew from (then) Bombay airport to Greece […]

For Pakistan, a country that depends on Indus, India reclaiming G-B would be nothing short of a hydropolitical nightmare (even if one discounts the direct India Afghanistan land connection). So how is Pakistan pre-empting a situation like that?