Articles By Jay Bhattacharjee

India and Bangladesh – A Troubled and Tormented Interface
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Date: 16 Jul , 2022
For years, this writer has been trying to understand and assess the tortuous and complicated relationship between two integral components of Bengal. These two, namely a Muslim Bengal (currently...

Why our Bengal is so Important for The Indian Republic
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Date: 01 May , 2021

Decline of a Superpower – Trump brings down the US to the Bihar-Bengal-UP...
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2021
We do not have to be admirers or students of Edward Gibbon when we look at the events across the Atlantic in the last four years, as President Trump and his Republican Party cohorts almost managed...

Indian Nationalists must Review their Love Affair with Trump
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Nov , 2020
For the past three years or so, this analyst has watched with increasing dismay the uncritical admiration and love that the desi nationalists have been displaying and expressing for President...

The Critical Factors that Contribute to a Country’s Military Strength
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 02 Nov , 2020
While India put in a reasonable amount of effort to build up our scientific and technological base, we never went anywhere near to integrating it to our military needs. Our ancient Indic culture...

India – A Soft State Perennially Manipulated by its Civilisational Enemies
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2020
The inferno and mayhem that engulfed the nation’s capital for a few days in late February was tragic and heartrending. The loss of human lives and widespread destruction of both state and...

India’s fault lines used constantly by various forces to weaken the...
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2020
It had to happen sooner or later. The semi-insurgency conditions, that were whipped up in many parts of the country just before and after the CAA was enacted, threw up an event that could well be...

The Indian Republic under Siege – Termites Crawling out of the Woodwork
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2020
The last few weeks have been incendiary (both literally and figuratively) for our country. For almost every day during this period, our country which is young in the narrow political...