India’s geography, history, and politics are incredibly complex to understand. Geography is mostly reviewed cursorily. Even many overlook the course of the past 8000-year history, and how it influences the current and future course. Most importantly understanding the ramifications of strategic security challenges is myopic. No wonder, the internal crisis explosion is real with external…
Let me repeat, what I wrote in early 2001 over two decades ago, that “India is besieged by all-round crises: external and internal. By contrast, other nations pale into insignificance. Many holistic phrases coined by intellectual elites include: Geography is destiny; History, too, is destiny, for understanding the future and studying the past; and so…
The implications of the key issue over Rs.72,000 crore Great Nicobar Development Project to develop transshipment port, an international airport, township development, and a 450 MVA gas and solar-based power plant on the island needs a holistic review from national security interests: “Should Environmental & Tribal Activism override National Security Interests?” A number of articles…
Bangladesh is indisputably galloping in rapid transformation mode ahead of Pakistan as the “Epi-Center” of Islamist radical terrorism. The clash between Islamic and Hindu culture is real. It holds dangerous portends in posterity for India. List of Native Terrorist groups include: the Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami/Bangladesh (HuJI-B) – (1992); Bangladesh Taliban; Jamaatul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) – 1989; Jamaat ul-Mujahideen (JUM); Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (JeL),…
During his ongoing visit to the US, Rahul Ghandy (RG) is hell-bent upon proving his mentor Sam Pitroda(aka Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda of Gujarat lineage) wrong by his disparaging remarks on a variety of subjects like politics, economy and technology. Quite paradoxical and ironic Sam Pitroda is commendation that “RG has a vision contrary to what…
Is Mamata Banerjee (MB), the firebrand leader of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and Chief Minister of West Bengal, a “Megalomaniac” or “Narcissist”? Her behavioral traits, particularly during the recent past, tend to portray her as a deadly combination of a “Megalomaniac and Narcissist.” How MB is making attempts to wriggle out of the…
Brig (retd GB Reddi) The Islamist terrorist envelopment of South Asia is a daunting prospect when viewed from a holistic strategic security perspective. Late General Bipin Joshi in his address to the IPS probationers at the NPA Hyderabad (1993 to 1994), prophesized the “Islamic Crescent Envelopment of South Asia”. Of course, its current status may…
Brig (retd) GB Reddi “Zero Tolerance against Corruption” is the most invoked reiteration, more so from the “Ramparts of Red Fort”, since I K Gujral’s period in 1997 to 1998. “We remain committed to fighting corruption” is also reaffirmed internationally. Next, recently Modi assured strict action in cases of crime against women – no culprit…
Brig (retd) GB Reddi The answer to the question – “Can Indian Laws and their Execution Process Deter Rapes” is simple – NO. Provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 375 and 376 are inadequate to ensure effective deterrence against sexual offenses. The earlier the “Legislature, Executive, Judiciary, and the Media – Four Pillars…
