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    Forces are top-heavy, cut the flabOpinion
    Forces are top-heavy, cut the flab

    Border defence and border policing are important aspects of national security. They require different approaches, and...

    2 Aug 2016 7:13 PM

    Stop marginalising the militaryOpinion
    Stop marginalising the military

    Supremacy of the civil over the military is a fundamental requirement of a functioning democracy.

    14 Jun 2016 6:50 PM

    How to tackle Assam illegal immigrantsOpinion
    How to tackle Assam illegal immigrants'

    The BJP for the first time has gone beyond the Hindi heartland and into the Northeast with a landslide victory in the...

    30 May 2016 6:18 PM

    US has no right to lecture IndiaOpinion
    US has no right to lecture India

    During his visit to India as chief guest on Republic Day, US President Barack Obama, speaking at New Delhi’s Siri...

    17 May 2016 5:48 PM

    Let’s revive KashmiriyatOpinion
    Let’s revive Kashmiriyat

    I recall Day One, October 27, 1947, when we landed at Srinagar airport to rescue the people of Kashmir. The enemy was...

    4 May 2016 12:58 AM

    Kashmir is not BalochistanOpinion
    Kashmir is not Balochistan

    Balochistan and Kashmir are two former princely states afflicted by insurgency on the subcontinent. All others merged...

    25 April 2016 6:21 PM

    Azadi in modern Indian historyOpinion
    Azadi in modern Indian history

    I belong to a generation which struggled for azadi. We also witnessed the dawn of azadi.

    5 April 2016 5:59 PM

    Politics and men in uniformOpinion
    Politics and men in uniform

    For first few years of my Army career, I served in a Jat Regiment battalion in Burma during the Second World War and...

    17 March 2016 5:54 PM

    A crying shameOpinion
    A crying shame

    The recent Jawaharlal Nehru University campus happenings were followed by lawlessness and violence in Patiala House...

    25 Feb 2016 5:40 PM

    The INA and IndependenceOpinion
    The INA and Independence

    I returned to India in August 1946 after serving in Burma and Indonesia during the Second World War.

    10 Feb 2016 5:26 PM

    Here & NowOpinion
    History in a few sq miles

    In September 1946, an interim coalition government of the Congress and the Muslim League was installed in Delhi with...

    27 Jan 2016 12:31 AM

    Give up past, work togetherOpinion
    Give up past, work together

    I recall the 1947 slogan, “Hans ke liya hai Pakistan, ladkar lenge Hindustan”. Within weeks of Partition,...

    14 Jan 2016 6:06 PM

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