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Acknowledgment is in order
Looking back on our political leadership's attitude towards the armed forces in the last 50 years one discerns that in the first decade and a half there was complacency, mixed with a view that too much attention need not be given to building up our defence capacities as we were a non-aligned country, determined to be at peace with everybody. We woke up to a different reality in 1962.
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Congress' suicidal game with Muslims
A couple of years ago I had the misfortune of sharing the roof with a Congress party underling: a petty office bearer of its minority cell. He had nothing to his credit except his Muslim name. But that was precisely why the Congress needed him. And he needed the Congress party to earn his bread and butter. So the mutually beneficial relationship flowered.
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Cracking the code
On May 7, 1991, a coded wireless message was sent by Sivarasan, the LTTE's dreaded, one-eyed Jack to Pottu Amman, its intelligence chief -- two weeks before Rajiv Gandhi was killed. Like several others being transmitted from five other LTTE stations located in Sri Lanka and Madras since early 1991, this one too was received on a secret set in New Delhi being operated by officials of the Indian intelligence.
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Gujral Doctrine, Part II
From being a peacenik's essay on subcontinental brotherhood, the Gujral Doctrine has turned into a kind of national indoctrination. Maybe the politics of the day, the politics of the United Front particularly, demands that. Sonia Gandhi, once the delphic diva of 10 Janpath, is currently a Howitzer-wielding, apology-spuming, Rajiv-told-me-so Congress angel, and she is the one who is defining the debate.
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