Elusive Dream of Inclusive Bharat on January 24, 2024In the diverse tapestry of India, the idea of an inclusive Bharat has remained a distant dream, overshadowed by the persistent waves of communal hysteria. At the heart of this discord lies the thriving ideology of Hindutva, which has strategically fueled the flames of division to secure and consolidate political power. This article delves into […]
The RSS takeover of Indian Democracy on March 20, 2020The struggle to secure the constitutional and political protection of secularism in India has been long and difficult, and secularism’s enemies remain numerous. Hindutwa is waging their war not in opposition to secularism, but in and through it. Increasingly, secularism has become the subject of intense political contestation in which right wing Hindutwa religious and […]
The rise in sustained anti-Muslim violence since the fall of Babri Masjid on March 11, 2020The Hindu Right dates back to the nineteenth-century revivalist and nationalist movements in India, which sought to revitalize Hindu culture as a means of resisting colonialism. As it developed through the twentieth century, particularly in the writings of Vir D. Savarkar in the 1920s, Hindutva has taken on a distinctively right wing, anti-minority stance. The […]
5th Generation warfare and Pakistan on March 9, 2020In the realm of warfare, throughout history there have been many so-called revolutionary developments, asymmetric approaches, information operations, effects-based operations, non- traditional actors, and so forth. Such phenomena assumed greater importance in the past few decades. Fifth-generation warfare (5GW) is the battle of perceptions and information. 5GW is also a cultural and moral war, which […]
Hindutwa and the rise of hate in India on March 4, 2020At the time of writing this article the communal violence in Delhi may have subsided but it has left in its wake is a trail of hatred that has been festering ever since the RSS indoctrinated Modi led BJP came into power. With a death toll that surpasses 40, most of whom were Muslims and […]
Pakistan’s looming cyber threat on October 5, 2019Pakistan’s digital infrastructure is vulnerable. About cyber espionage, one knows who, how, where, and why it matters? But there is paucity of knowledge about “what to do”? Pakistan does have cyber-crime laws but unfortunately it is not being implemented effectively, rather it is not evolving at the same pace that is required to keep up […]