There has been a discernible frisson of excitement in intellectual and political circles in New Delhi ever since the leaders of the Mohajirs, Sindhis, Baluchis and Pakhtoons declared the demise of the two-nation theory. Partition, Pakistan’s minority groups intoned, was a blunder because its raison d’etre, expounded in the 1940 Lahore Declaration (full provincial autonomy […]Read More
Indo-Tibetan border has been a matter of dispute right from the time when China illegally occupied Tibet with the connivance of our first PM Jawaharlal Nehru. This dispute led to the disastrous 1962 war where an ill-prepared Indian armed force had to face defeat due to the blind foreign policy of Nehru government. The ghost […]Read More
Ever since the eastern part of Pakistan broke away from the west & became Bangladesh (with India’s help of course) in 1971, India’s policy with regards to it has been an epic disaster. A nation that is surrounded by Indian territory on three sides (with the fourth side facing the Bay of Bengal and a […]Read More
Mahatma Gandhi made a speech at Chatham House, London, on 20 October 1931, in which he said, ”I say without fear of my figures being challenged successfully, that today India is more illiterate than it was fifty or hundred years ago, and so is Burma, because the British administrators, when they came to India, instead […]Read More
As compared to other means of transportation, railways must never be thought of as things of the past. When railways are modernized, they become the indispensable means of transportation. – Sogo Shinji, the father of Shinkansen, 1956 Roads should be used only where rail is found to be less cost-effective. It is imperative to treat […]Read More