Internal conflicts and the Sangh polity in India on May 20, 2014Besides the largest-in-the-world array of external conflicts, India is also home to the maximum-in-the-world internal conflicts. Ethno-religious fault lines play a predominant role in making a case for homegrown violence in India. The internal conflicts include separatist insurgencies plaguing the country since 1947. An estimated 30 armed insurgencies sweep across India, reflecting an acute sense […]
The 30 year war over Siachin on April 19, 2014Alarm bells have started ringing as the 30 years of war over the Siachin glacier have caused melting of the world’s biggest glacier at an unusual speed. If it dissolves towards the mid-twenty first century, it will not only ravage India, Pakistan and other regional countries, but, according to Al Gore’s award winning documentary An […]
Terminal decay? on April 19, 2014The continuous, vicious downward spiral of the economic crisis has exposed the hypocrisy and impotency of the elite. In a macabre scenario Pakistan seems to be plunging deeper and deeper into an irredeemable abyss of mayhem and devastation. The rulers are running out of excuses and diversions. Their indifference, callousness and utter contempt for the […]