Bharat Rakshak

Buddha Jayanti 2021 marks 47 years of India's first successful covert nuclear test, Smiling Buddha. An analysis of how Smiling Buddha triggered the creation of an international nuclear black market led by AQ Khan. https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/smiling-buddha-and-how-khan-networks-insid...

Is there a conclusive advisory on how many days should one wait after recovery before getting vaccinated? I've tried searching for this but couldn't find one. Both the doctors treating me have independently advised me a clear 6 weeks after full recovery. I'm assuming there's an unwritten rule which...

Gents, leaving aside the debate on why the wave 2 is happening and who is to blame,the goal is for us to survive. Therefore let me share with you a few tips on what has definitely helped over the last year. Advice from reputed docs,etc. Every single person that I know who has gotten covid (recovere...

Kindly Pardon me saars for the simplistic views: The borders of country, race, religion are all imagined realities that have been created in minds of people to satisfy certain fundamental requirements like security, development and overall well-being of its citizens/communities/followers. The idea o...

What is the biggest change in IAS policy that would make them more answerable and efficient. I don't see Babu lobby improving in efficiency beyond what general efficiency of India is. Other than hiring-firing, what else is the way out to improve babudom without making them susceptible to Politician...

The rules make them and can be used by a shrewd mind to break them. I'm sure this is well known in political circles. True. The problem is that many politicans are not really smart when it comes to understanding the various law points, or going through the small prints in various orders etc. Things...

we seem to be stuck with a colonial bureaucracy descended unchanged from the ICS which was tailormade to exclusively serve britshit interests to the exclusion of all else. So is the police, fully ingrained with a colonial prejudice that is so oppressive to all Indians and meant to exclusively safeg...

^^ Be careful with what you wish for. While this is great for Modi government, imagine how this can misused by Congis by setting up unconstitutional bodies like NAC. Or using folks like Sam Pitroda. But then government's hands are also tied due to various factors like reservations etc. i only wish ...

This piece is by R Rajagopalan (a political commentator/journalist on the BJP circuit) quoting his "sources". However I hope what he outlined in this piece will be the overall approach of this Govt to getting things done in India by making Babu's accountable & positively selecting the...

All the ispr lifafas are clamoring for a presidential system now. Apparently it was great. https://twitter.com/SaleemFarrukh/status/1116977217521836034?s=20 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4BM13EXoAAl3Oy?format=png&name=900x900 Not just great. Looks like the graytness was abnormally consistent. It...

I am mostly a lurker here, though a regular on BRF since before Kargil. I am seeing a somewhat disturbing trend even among the old timers. Why are we probing so deeply into the identity of people on Twitter or asking repeatedly what happened at Muzaffarabad and elsewhere? Or giving out details of w...