IDR Blog
Another partition?
The other day I was stunned to hear from a close confidant of former Bihar Chief Minister and union railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav that unless somebody like Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, India would witness another partition sooner rather than later. Given the reactions of a section of Muslims and Muslim leadership in...
I tied my turban myself
He walked into my Clinic – ramrod straight – a dignified elderly fit man. I knew immediately that he was from the Armed Forces – you can retire a man from the Armed Forces but you cannot take the Armed Forces culture out of the man. “Doc – I need bypass surgery“ he said in a no nonsense way. I went through his records. He had...
Indigenisation - the only way forward
The success of the indigenously developed Mars Orbiter Mission of ISRO has taken everyone by surprise, more so because it was achieved at a tenth of the cost of similar projects abroad. The fact that India is the only country to have achieved success in its maiden attempt at Mars, makes this even more creditable. Do these facts not provide...
Pakistan’s interest lies in rejecting conspiracy theories targeting India
Saad Aziz is a normal upper crust Pakistani kid! He has studied the BBA programme at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi. His friends remember him as a normal student who played football for IBA United and had a GPA above 3.0. It was only during his third year at college that a change came over him. He dropped his old...
ISIS: Terror moving toward Jordan
Anarchy is the best defined term to explain present violent Middle East. The actors in the current international system follow ‘the law of Jungle,’ [1] – either eat or to be eaten- which is the only principle of survival. In the past few years, the rapid shift in the violent conflicts in the different parts of the world and changing...