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India’s Defence Strategy. Did We Get Things Wrong?

11 Sunday Oct 2015

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1965 War, Brig. John Dalvi, Himalyan Blunder, Jammu & Kashmir, Sanjay Dixit, Shankar Bajpai

I must explain my unprecedented long absence from blogging. I was not well for more than the past month. It started with an attack of pharyngitis and laryngitis which later became a urinary bladder infection. The need for prostate surgery soon followed. I am resting and recuperating at home since I was discharged from the hospital on Sept 26, 2015. I have kept myself busy by catching up with my book reviews, which you will find in my website, “Prem Rao, Stories From A Story Teller,” and on my reading.  Continue reading →

The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits

03 Saturday May 2014

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1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, Farooq Abdullah, Jammu & Kashmir, jihad, Kashmiri Pandits, minorities in India, Rahul Pandita

What a difference internet and the electronic media have made to India! We saw in 2002 how terrible incidents like the riots in Gujarat were literally brought into our living rooms. One shuddered to think of the people who suffered because of the riots. The riots by themselves were not a new phenomenon. Gujarat has had its share of riots, like many other States in India, for many decades. In fact for all the criticism against Narendra Modi’s Government, Gujarat has had no riot since that one in 2002. That’s not the topic of my post, however. I ask today why a section of the media and some NGOs  go on relentlessly about the Gujarat riots of 2002, but don’t speak of (with even a fraction of the intensity and passions they show for Gujarat) on the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland in 1990? Continue reading →

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