Amid a tense election season in the country, a rather unique but important issue has popped up, the Great Nicobar Project. Hailed by government and its supporters as the next ‘masterstroke’, while considered extremely dangerous and catastrophic for ecology by environmental experts and opposition. In this Blog, I will try…
August 5, 2019, the BJP government decided to strip the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir of its special status, downgrade it to a union territory, and also carve out a separate UT in Ladakh. The people of Ladakh, its leaders including activist and educator Sonam Wangchuk hailed this move…
Why India's 'confused' Tibet Policy needs reckoning
August 8, 2024
Over the past some time, writing commentary on foreign policies has been a delightful job of mine. On most if not all occasions, I have been praiseworthy of India’s foreign policy, which has been more assertive and proactive on most fronts. But, one policy area popped into my mind, where…
