The writer, a former rear admiral in the navy, is author of ‘A Nuclear Strategy for India’.
June 01, 2009 23:52 IST
Gaurav Hridaya attributes his fascination for the Armed Forces to the years spent at Rashtriya Indian Military College,Dehra Dun.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009May 31, 2009 05:07 IST
The monsoon is just days away and Puneites,especially the 80,000-strong population of the Pune Cantonment...
Sun, May 31, 2009May 25, 2009 23:48 IST
With the monsoon just days away,the Pune Cantonment Boards plans to ensure a hassle-free rainy season for citizens have hit a snarl.
Mon, May 25, 2009May 20, 2009 01:06 IST
Around 33 serving officers from the three services,currently posted at the National Defence Academy...
Wed, May 20, 2009May 12, 2009 04:32 IST
A pleasant surprise awaited those who flew out of the city on Monday as they found themselves being asked to go through the new,spacious departure terminal at the Lohegaon Airport.
Tue, May 12, 2009April 24, 2009 00:18 IST
Nilesh Jadhav,a second year B.Com student at a well-known college in the city,is enjoying his summer vacation and was looking forward to having his usual quota of beer with friends at his favourite bar in Kalyani Nagar.
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
November 05, 2005 00:00 IST
The country’s strategic future is under debate, as it was in 1998 before the nuclear tests. Then, as now, the future was but dimly perc...
Sat, Nov 05, 2005
October 06, 2005 00:00 IST
The Indian vote at the IAEA is a watershed of sorts. It marks the first major unpleasant decision taken on the basis of national interests. ...
Thu, Oct 06, 2005
September 17, 2005 00:00 IST
It was ’82 when India acquired the world’s most advanced submarine building facilities from Germany, installed them in Mazagon Doc...
Sat, Sep 17, 2005
March 30, 2005 00:00 IST
From Iraq to the Indian Ocean, from the forthcoming NPT conference to the Proliferation Security Initiative, from the Japanese overtures to ...
Wed, Mar 30, 2005
January 14, 2005 00:00 IST
The untimely passing of J.N. Dixit has raised some old questions of why the country went in for the National Security Council/Advisor system...
Fri, Jan 14, 2005
November 15, 2004 00:00 IST
Witnessing an election in America is different from seeing the parliamentary elections in India. The difference lies in the levels of connec...
Mon, Nov 15, 2004
June 24, 2004 23:10 IST
The recent minimal South Asian attempt at nuclear confidence building measures (CBMs) is best described by an apt South Asian saying: ‘...
Thu, Jun 24, 2004
June 12, 2004 00:00 IST
The Pakistan Army is Pakistan, so say Indian analysts. The future of Pakistan and the future of the Pakistani Army are indistinguishable, th...
Sat, Jun 12, 2004
February 17, 2004 00:00 IST
Indian diplomacy has come a long way in the last year. There is a great deal of method in the approach to dealing with Pakistan, and for som...
Tue, Feb 17, 2004
November 22, 2003 00:00 IST
It is not only in India that one branch of the government is unaware of what other branches are doing. It happens in the other great democra...
Sat, Nov 22, 2003
October 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Diwali this year has been a good time for the armed forces. All of them have got the hardware the acquisition of which was pending for years...
Mon, Oct 27, 2003
October 02, 2003 00:00 IST
The Rae Bareli court’s order in the Babri masjid demolition case prompted one minister to offer his resignation while the other celebra...
Thu, Oct 02, 2003
July 23, 2003 00:00 IST
The attempt to forge a domestic consensus in difficult times is the finest manifestation of a healthy democracy. The debate in India over se...
Wed, Jul 23, 2003
June 18, 2003 00:00 IST
An Indian presence in Iraq is to India’s advantage. For too many years this country’s foreign policy has struggled with the mechan...
Wed, Jun 18, 2003
May 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Having been abroad during the fall of Baghdad, this author missed most of the heavy and continuous anti-US Indian press coverage, including ...
Sat, May 03, 2003
March 26, 2003 00:00 IST
The modern state of Iraq is a creation of the old Indian Army. So we can’t really wash our hands off the problem once Saddam Hussein is...
Wed, Mar 26, 2003
February 13, 2003 00:00 IST
As the name suggests, international terrorism occurs across the globe. Most of those masterminding terrorism in the country live and operate...
Thu, Feb 13, 2003
December 24, 2002 00:00 IST
Foreign diplomats returning from Islamabad have been asking the Indian strategic community what they make of recent Pakistani claims that th...
Tue, Dec 24, 2002
October 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Talking to Chinese strategic institutes is always serious stuff, because they differentiate little between Track I and II. So when all of th...
Wed, Oct 23, 2002




