Bharat Rakshak

There is some simmering (and long overdue) angst against Pakistan after the Wikileaks release on Afghanistan. It has been intentionally downplayed. There needs to be much more stuff highlighting the role Pakistan has played in creating the Taliban, undermining US operations in Afghanistan, prolifera...

India is the only country which allows such countries to openly penetrate and even influence people, election and policies. India allows foreigners to own newspapers, run propaganda wars, even do social engineering. We have even inside BR "Indians" are supporting these countries and their...

Lalmohan wrote:well the R and C in BRIC did prop them up

Gaddafi is a Soviet creation after all.

U Banerjee the question is not pointless, there is no relation between Qadafi ruling Libya and west right to Bomb Libya Of course there is. Qaddafi has no right to rule and the West has no right to bomb him. Ergo, no one has a right to do anything, but this pious moralizing is quite useless in alte...

The leaks are almost certainly authentic, given the level of detail, the sheer volume and the fact that they've pissed off many parties indiscriminately. However, three things are interesting. One, the leaks are curiously tame, mostly reinforcing what intelligent commentators already suspected. The ...

Singha, I don't think NATO gives a damn. If they can take out Gaddafi they will. Honestly it will save a lot of peoples lives. There are all kinds of ways to help the rebels. Right now NATO is asking the rebels to hold while they take out the defenses around Ajdabiya. It will take some time to plan...

Colonialism lives on under some other name - with a large proportion of people dhimmified to believe that the actions of the colonialists are righteous. From everything I see, this narrative does not get much play outside of Western domestic consumption. That is it's primary purpose anyway. Hardly ...

It really depends on how much outside assistance and money will flow in to keep Gaddafi's forces alive and fighting, or barring that, to fund "insurgencies" along those lines, to keep Libya unstable. It is important to remember that the reason why any invasion/attack/occupation by an overw...

While I agree that India and the US are not particularly suited to be natural allies, given the divergence of Indian and US interests, I don't get the need to moralize on the matter and issue statements like the following: America has demonstrated a depth of moral bankruptcy that should give any Ind...