IDR Blog
Looming terror threat
The terror threat that is waging fratricidal and civil war in middle-east has arrived at our threshold. Pakistan inspired, trained, financed and supported terror organizations like LeT, Jaish etc are hell bent on creating trouble in Kashmir and rest of India, Taliban is already entrenched in Pakistan and Afghanistan and now ISIS has reached...
Media Canards of Military Coup
John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, respectfully referred to as the ‘Dean of His Profession’, said during his farewell speech in 1953, “There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare to write your honest...
South Asia Chessboard: An India’s struggle for ‘policy of prestige’
The chess board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us[1]. The meeting on 10 July between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif met in Ufa in Russia on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation...
Are we a bad news nation?
Have we have become a ‘bad news’ nation, forever self-flagellating and unable to see anything positive around ourselves? We are also showing up as a nation that is incapable of sustained action; even our so-called anger is like a straw fire that burns furiously for a while and then just as quickly dies away without a trace. The more we...
Amnesty International’s prejudiced and outrageous report on J&K
Amnesty International (AI) has, once again, come up with a highly objectionable report on Jammu and Kashmir titled, “Denied: Failures in accountability for human rights violations by security force personnel in Jammu and Kashmir.” The report gives some case studies of alleged human rights victims in the state. These, however, are not...