Bharat Rakshak

"We were complicit in this last phase of the offensive when a great number of civilians were killed,” General Mehta, who is now retired, told The Times. “Having taken a decision to go along with the campaign, we went along with it all the way and ignored what was happening on the ground.” Compl...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ma ... mil-tigers

'I'm only 16. They gave me a rifle. It was heavy. They said we had to go forward. If we came back, they would shoot us'

Now to wait for a Times of London article calling THIS story a falsehood.

The attack could potentially have happened at any time in the past few years; it did not. The Afghan authorities have gone out of their way to say that the Embassy had been specifically targeted. One may wonder how the attackers were able to get to their target, given the proximity of the Afghan Int...

[quote="rocky"]dnirody, KS is doing quite a bit of pro-US batting recently. Re-read his article with that at the back of the mind, and the effect is completely different. The point I wish to make is that it is necessary to be pro-India first and foremost and not seek to find a 'friend' who...

] China has earned its right to be in such a debate by engaging with the US economy and managing its security and geo-political interests, while India has not, yet. China has not merely engaged the US economy. To hear the loud complaining from quarters in the US you'd suppose that Beijing is trying...

] China has earned its right to be in such a debate by engaging with the US economy and managing its security and geo-political interests, while India has not, yet. China has not merely engaged the US economy. To hear the loud complaining from quarters in the US you'd suppose that Beijing is trying...

US interests can never be identical with Indian interests, nor can there exist a truly equal partnership on any level. There is no reason to believe that Washington is all of a sudden going to renounce its mantra of 'US leadership' where this means a simple dictation to subordinates what their bit r...

[quote="shiv"]The following article has been linked from the News section of BR. It is by KS and I hope there is no parallel discussion going on. The topic is too important to ignore - but I wll post some of my own thoughts in a separate post. Pity K. Subramanyam. The Cold War is over but,...