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Breaking the Neo-Caste Barrier

01 Mar 201701 Mar 2017 Sword1 Comment on Breaking the Neo-Caste Barrier

An interesting, and for most of us, encouraging, phenomenon is visible in India today. It is the brick by brick dismantling of the neo-caste system inRead More…

Appointment of Army Chief – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

11 Dec 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Appointment of Army Chief – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Amidst speculation and heated debates about the delay in appointment of the next army chief, rumours about the two senior army commanders likely tRead More…

Is the Indian Army in Danger of Being Politicised?

11 Dec 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Is the Indian Army in Danger of Being Politicised?

The following article appeared in The Quint. Original can be accessed here. Gen Dalbir Suhag, the present army chief is due to retire at the enRead More…

Aam Aadmi Party and the demise of hope

29 Nov 201629 Nov 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Aam Aadmi Party and the demise of hope

Aam Aadmi Party was born of hope. The Lokpal movement of 2011, led by Anna Hazare, was a watershed event in India’s recent history. A diminutive miRead More…

Send in the Army

13 Nov 201613 Nov 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Send in the Army

Narendra Modi government’s bold move to demonetize high denomination notes in circulation and replacing them with new ones has by and large beenRead More…

An Open Letter to Aakar Patel

06 Nov 201606 Nov 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on An Open Letter to Aakar Patel

Dear Mr Patel, This is in response to your piece published in today’s TOI under a presumptuously named column ‘AakaarVani’. I’m writing thiRead More…

Heroes amongst us

04 Nov 201605 Nov 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Heroes amongst us

This Diwali, there was a special effort from the government to put the soldiers in the forefront of national consciousness. The prime minister himselfRead More…

Close Encounters

01 Nov 201602 Nov 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Close Encounters

  The trouble with opposition generated and media sustained hype about anything that could be used to embarrass the government is manifoldRead More…

Karan Johar and Capt Boycott

28 Oct 201628 Oct 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Karan Johar and Capt Boycott

Had Sir Charles Boycott been alive today, he may have empathized with Karan Johar. Wanting to get his lands harvested amidst protests from tenant Read More…

When the tail wags the dog

26 Oct 201626 Oct 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on When the tail wags the dog

The Armed Forces seem to be under siege. The adversary is neither as deadly as terrorists or enemy soldiers, nor as discernible as them. Silent, slow Read More…

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