As India commemorates 20 years of the Kargil war in which it successfully drove away Pakistani intruders, the war was quite a learning experience for the Indian troops. Coordination between the Army and the Air Force could have been a lot better and the use of laser-designation systems could have helped pinpoint enemy targets better, as Air Marshal R Nambiar, who was a Wing Commander then, told SNI’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale in this interview. #India #Kargil #IAF
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.
