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Vikram Sood
@Vikram_Sood
Adviser, ORF, New Delhi. Author of 'The Unending Game - Insights into Espionage' (Penguin) & 'The Ultimate Goal' - about national narratives (HarperCollins)
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/4 There was a request that I should recommend some reading on espionage. So here it is a short list for starters
Books By John le Carre
1 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
a masterpiece but difficult to establish connections on first reading 2/4 Based on a true story. Also a marvellous film with the same title. On YouTube
Jun 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A friend sent this and reproduced in consecutive tweets Let's Understand AGNIPATH options* 1 Don't join it. spend time doing ur 10th and 12th at your cost, then find a 3rd grade college and do a useless graduation and rest of life spend in finding job
Jun 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@KanwalSibal Regime change in the name of democracy has been a favourite American sport. Out of 28 cases of American regime change according to political scientists Alexander Downes and Jonathan Monten, only 3 cases proved successful in building a lasting democracy 1/n @KanwalSibal Regime change essentially means destabilising first. In roughly 40 percent of the cases of covert regime change undertaken during the Cold War, a civil war occurred within 10 years of the operation. e.g 1960 Congo-Léopoldville Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was ousted.
Oct 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This analysis about the direction Pakistan’s military rulers might take following a scathing attack by Nawaz Sharif is by @sushantsareen, one of our foremost Pakistan-watchers and should be read carefully. NS has taken a carefully calculated gamble with his high risk strategy. He is nobody’s fool Sushant Sareen says. Clearly the Generals are in a quandary now. They cannot leave this attack unanswered because if they don’t the fear of the military would be gone
May 22, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1 Let me assert - EVMs cannot be hacked. They are individual counting machines & not linked to the Internet or any other circuit. There can be an individual malfunction but not a systemic collapse. The EVM system worked in 2009, 2014 & in 2018 so why this anguish now? 2 Second, this entire exercise launched by the Opposition is worse than a farce. It is based on false pretexts and non-existent evidence. If persisted, it has the makings of a tragedy that will kill universal faith in our democratic systems.