Students, Politics, Vandalism Where Are We Moving ? Those who remember bloody episodes of student politics across Indian universities during the 1970s and 1980s may be forgiven for thinking that the gruesome killing of Prof Sabharwal in Ujjain is not so much a marker of a new crisis of India’s next generation, as much as it is a grim reminder of all that we had chosen to forget. Earlier student politics,...

Is India A Soft State? Accidents of history often become intrinsic to the culture and thinking of a people. India secured its freedom through a process of non-violent confrontation with the British, and this has enormously encouraged a popular psyche that tends to reject the option of the use of force in the resolution of political conflicts – and, indeed, yields a significant resistance to the application of coercive measures even...

National Security Essay No. 01 India faces several military and non-military threats to its National Security. .While there are military threats from its neighbours, Pakistan and China, it is mainly the threat from Islamic terrorism and ethnic insurgency which is ever growing due to external support. Military Threats to National Security These threats are largely from Pakistan and China. Threat from Pakistan is ever-existing, however from Chinese side, it is medium...

Educating India “Education in India stands at the crossroads today. Neither normal linear expression nor the existing pace and nature of improvement can meet the needs of the situation.” This is a section of 1.9 of the National Policy on Education, 1986. What are the chances that we will also find more or less the same statements in another document in 2026? Your answer will decide whether you are a cynic...

Terrorist Attack on Mumbai 26/11 The 26 November, 2008 Mumbai attacks were a series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India’s financial capital and its largest city. The attacks, carried out by Pakistani terrorists using automatic weapons and grenades began on 26 November 2008 and ended on 29 November 2008. At least 173 people were killed and at least 308 were injured in the attacks. Eight of the attacks occurred...

Rahul Gandhi From the start with the decision that the Congress should not contest under a UPA umbrella, it is Rahul Gandhi who has been dictating the party’s campaign. A proud mother stepped back and let the son dictate the Congress response to the electoral challenge. Neither she, nor a less trusting congress was disappointed. Sonia Gandhi and her son are sticking to the old script that has Manmohan Singh as...