Brig Brijesh Pandey The 1999 Kargil War is remembered as a war India won despite fighting under self-imposed restrictions of ground as well as Air Force not crossing the Line of Control (LoC). That framing, while accurate in terms of the triumph of the brute infantry courage and artillery firepower, screens the uncomfortable question as … Continue reading Kargil Review Committee: Two Decades of India’s Defense Reforms
India's case admits no ambiguity. The accession of 1947 was absolute: a lawful, unconditional and final transfer of the whole State to India, made by its sole competent authority and ratified by its elected assembly, and its integration into the Union is complete and irreversible. The boundaries are not vague or negotiable; they are the … Continue reading Explainer: Pakistan Occupied Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
Ram Statue Row, unsettling minority question point to decay in societal plurality ideals with radicals holding the sway! Diganta Chakraborty History often throws up some unsettling questions. Partition of Bengal in 1947 was one such moment. A land enriched by freedom fighter Masterda Surya Sen, spiritual leader Dr. Mahanambrata Brahmachari and ancestors of Rabindranath Tagore … Continue reading Unimplemented Bangladesh Guarantees
Air India Flight 182, known as Kanishka, did not fall from the sky. It was bombed. And the hands that bombed it were shaken, sheltered, and in some cases, elected to office in the four decades that followed.Rahul PAWA On 23 June 1985, Air India Flight 182, operating on the Montreal-London-Delhi route, was blown up … Continue reading Remembering Kanishka and the Threat That Outlived It
The history of Kashmir is a tale of culture rather than just geography. The Valley fostered a distinctive intellectual, spiritual and cultural history for thousands of years that significantly influenced Bharat's civilisational terrain. Kashmiri Hindu community consisting of intellectuals, philosophers, saints, poets and custodians of sanatan/dharmic knowledge whose presence established Kashmir's cultural identity over centuries, … Continue reading Kashmir’s Temple Heritage: A Testament to Bharat’s Enduring Civilization
Exposing grooming gangs is not an affront against Islam, highlighting crimes against vulnerable children is not a crime either. K.A.Badarinath Radical Islamist Pakistani origin mafia, the ill-famed ‘grooming gangs’ have got thoroughly exposed for their nefarious, rapacious, pervert and abusive sexual acts against vulnerable girls and women of non-muslim origin in United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, … Continue reading Radical Islamist Rape Gangs Exposed!
Seven are dead and an internet blackout has fallen over the hills, but the protesters in Pakistan’s Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have refused to go home. After seventy-nine years, the territory Islamabad occupied is deciding it will no longer be ruled. Rahul Pawa | X @imrahulpawa The bridge at Khaigala is not the sort … Continue reading Why Rawalakot Is Burning: Exploitation Dressed as Administration
Rohan Giri On April 29, 2026, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun announced a Khalistan Referendum voter registration drive from the Karachi Press Club. He was speaking via video link from New York. He was targeting Sikhs who live inside Bharat. The venue, the man and the medium together tell a story that his words never could. There … Continue reading Referendum Farce: Story Written in Karachi, Staged in New York
Every analyst who measured Operation Sindoor in airbases missed the war. Operation Sindoor was not just a reply to an attack. It was a reply to a narrative. Rahul PAWA | x- @iamrahulpawa To understand Operation Sindoor, begin not in 2025 but in the ideological soil from which Pakistan itself was carved, a two-nation theory … Continue reading Vermilion and the War Cry: What Operation Sindoor Was Really About
Pakistan's resort to the UNSC on the Indus Waters Treaty collapses on contact with the law of treaties, the law of state responsibility, and the Charter regime on the use of force. Rahul Pawa | x: @imrahulpawa On 22 April 2025, in the Baisaran meadow above Pahalgam, terrorists separated tourists by faith and shot twenty-five … Continue reading Indus Treaty in Abeyance: India, Pakistan, and International Law
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