Articles in Courtesy: Uday India
China’s New Himalayan Thrust
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 03 Feb , 2013
Recent views of some Indian experts studying China are persuading the strategic community that China is very likely to attack India in 2012. This view has apparently begun to influence some in...
UPA-Samjhauta-Saeed Nexus Exposed!
By: Rajinder Puri | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 31 Jan , 2013
Home Minister Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde addressing his party’s brainstorming Chintan Shivir at Jaipur almost immediately after Mr. Rahul Gandhi – with impetus of changing the culture and...
Will Xi Junior have courage for return of Dalai Lama?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 04 Jan , 2013
This is the stanza of a poem written by a 17-year-old Tibetan nun, Sangay Dolma before she took the fatal decision: Dolma set herself on fire in front of a Chinese government office at Tsekhog,...
Towards Better Ties: But nothing to show forward movement
By: Sunita Vakil | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 30 Dec , 2012
The road to Indo-Pakistan detente taken in the recent past has seen pleasant surprises keeping the peace process chugging along. The bilateral talk between the two countries last week to...
Deportation issues for Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants
By: Kahnu Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 29 Dec , 2012
Gadaharishpur Panchayat is a stunningly green and beautiful patch of land on the periphery of coastal Erasama Block of Jagatsinghpur District populated by Bengali-speaking Muslims, accused of...
Dead soldiers guard international border!
By: Shib Shankar Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 21 Dec , 2012
Inmates of the Border Security Force (BSF) of Khalpara International Border Out Post (IBOP) have been facing a number of unwanted incidents for a long time. This came to light after an incident...
China: Need For Hard Options
By: Bharat Karnad | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 Nov , 2012
I think one thing that strikes me very starkly when I contemplate China vis-a-vis India is the historical sense of humiliation, which has not been mentioned so far. The Chinese are very...
Chinese Economy: A Ticking Time Bomb!
By: Dr.Subramanian Swamy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 17 Nov , 2012
Before I get to the economy of China I would like to say it is not a question whether we like China or not. It is our neighbour. Because of our policy errors we have them right on our border. We...
Standing up to the Dragon
By: General V K Singh | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 15 Nov , 2012
When we talk of China, I will talk of two things. One is how we look at China today and second thing is what it is that was in 1962 and whether it is something that we can put it in future from...
Maoists as political prisoners?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 Sep , 2012
Two recent judicial pronouncements form West Bengal Courts have very dangerous implications for the country’s security and integrity. The first one was by the High Court and second was by a...
Time to say Good Bye to Prithvi Missiles?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 21 Sep , 2012
Recently I attended a round-table symposium on how “Missile transparency” could be an important confidence building measure (CBM) between India and Pakistan. It was organised by the New...
China’s world view: What India needs to know -I
By: Shyam Saran | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 19 Sep , 2012
Much of what I will say is drawn from my own experience of China, an abiding fascination with its unique civilization and a deep respect for its philosophical and cultural heritage. My...
China’s world view-II: What India needs to know
By: Shyam Saran | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
The Chinese were taken completely by surprise as perhaps were our own political leaders. The then External Affairs Minister, Mr ND Tiwari was transiting Beijing on his way back from Pyong Yang...
China humiliates India by offering cash tips
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Sep , 2012
How does one view the tips (“gift”) of Rs. 50000 that General Liang Guanglie, the outgoing defence minister of China, who has just concluded his five-day India visit, gave each of the two...
Assessing the PLA’s mindset!
By: Rajinder Puri | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Sep , 2012
Three editors, Mr. Andrew Scobell, Mr. David Lai and Mr. Roy Kamphausen, have collaborated to produce a book, Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples’ Wars brought out in India by Lancer Publishers....
IT superpower India humbled by petty cyber criminals!
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 Aug , 2012
People of the India’s Northeast, in the eyes of we hinterland Indians, share a common identity. With our limited knowledge about those seven States, we address them as Naga, Mizo or Manipuri....
An Inept Job in Kashmir
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 19 Jun , 2012
The much-awaited report of the Kashmir-interlocutors, appointed by the Union Home Ministry, is now out in the public domain. 176-page long, it has evoked mixed reactions. The interlocutors have...
Islamabad’s Obsession with Ballistic Missiles
By: NK Pant | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 08 Jun , 2012
News reports from Pakistan heralding forthcoming test firing of nuclear capable surface-to-surface ‘Nasr’ missile which has a range of 180 km and boasts of high degree of accuracy signal the...
Can China afford a war?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 Apr , 2012
James Clapper, the Director of the US National Intelligence recently told a Senate Committee on intelligence that the Indian Army was strengthening itself for a “˜limited conflict with China:...
Can Pakistan's Army be Restrained?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 Jan , 2012
In an interview with the BBC last December, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ms Hina Rabbani Khar admitted that the Pakistan army’s overwhelming power and influence over the civilian government...