IDR Blog
Pakistan should review security doctrines; shed failed policies
The breakdown of the much anticipated National Security Advisor (NSA) level talks between India and Pakistan on terror and regional security has come across as a big disappointment. The strategic community of both countries that well understands the need for stability in the subcontinent to open doors of prosperity for its teeming millions,...
Endless Enemies: The Grip of ISIL across the US and the Third World
Operating from Syria, Iraq, Libya and other areas of the Middle East, the Islamic State and ash-Sham, (ISIL in short), has been on everyone’s lips by now. Their objective is quite simple – caliphate: obtaining religious, political and military control over all Muslims worldwide. No matter how the means of achieving would be(brutal...
Old Wine in New Bottle: Pakistan’s Dirty Game of the Ceasefire Violation
Pakistan’s continuous ceasefire violations and a spate of terror attacks in Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab recently is a wake-up call for India, which is apprehensive that its north-western neighbour is again scheming to bring life to a grind in the areas adjoining the Line of Control (LoC). According to inputs of security agencies along the...
Hunted in Jungles like Animals
What shall people do when they can’t eat enough, sustain their families, or share in the wealth on their land? The origin of the Naxal problem in India’s forest and mineral heartland goes back before partition. The local tribal populace – 70 million strong, known as Adivasis – meaning “original inhabitants”[1] – were tillers...
India First - States must engage in reviving nationalism
The challenges to India are numerous. The multi ethnic, multi cultural, multi linguistic expanse had given rise to the slogan of ‘Unity in Diversity’ but we have hardly shown any acumen in managing social change over the last decade. 28.7 crore people cannot read. India stands at 94th position in corruption perception index, 136th in human...