1. Here is my 'deliberated' opinion. What #Demonitization was to d economy, this would b to d armed forces & India's military preparedness. Here r my reasons:
One: World has moved towards leaner & meaner armed forces. Even within infantry
2. the concept has been of a soldier as a system, a highly trained, tech-savvy, multi-tasking operator. In conventional warfighting, technology is increasingly eliminating d idea of close combat. I am not even talking about PLA's informatised & intelligentised war, which hardly
Mar 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1. Surprised it took so long to make #KashmirFiles. A propaganda film on #KashmiriPandit should have come out long ago. D only post-Independence event to justify victim syndrome among d #knickerwallahs has been d genuine & terrible plight of Kashmiri Pandits. Worse, no one is...
2. Interested is helping the poor among them, both living in and outside the Valley. Their utility is only as symbols of misery. After all, it's common sense that without peace in the Valley, no Pandit would risk life & limb by living in govt designated colonies, irrespective...
1. Until now, I hadn't commented on #Karnataka#hijab row. Conscious tht d issue was abt politics, neither religion nor young girls' right to wear hijab to college, I didn't have clarity of my position. Now I have. But first, a few questions
2. Has there been any incident in any part of India where #Muslim men wanted to attend classes in a particular dress, say a skullcap? Why is the responsibility of upholding religious identity only Muslim women's? Who is telling these women tht their identity & d right to fight
Nov 19, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A thread. Warning: It's emotional. But no drama.
When I started my career, way back in 1994, I wrote a long-winding article on how there can be peace in the Indian subcontinent. Though my knowledge of Kashmir & geopolitics was limited...,
My ignorance didn't come in the way of proposing that national boundaries needed to be flexible, allowing for free movement of people for personal travel, trade and tourism. At age 23, I figured that if Kashmir had open borders, India-Pakistan could be friends...
Jul 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
So govt supported think tank, gave platform to @China_Amb_India to lambast us. Tell us on r face that our slogan of non violence is pretense. That our brave soldiers died in #GalwanValley not only because they were aggressors but also they couldn't match the PLA. Not only
Retd Indian diplomats & journalists sat there listening to heaps upon heaps of allegations, none mustered courage to ask d Chini envoy which #LAC he was referring to. Mutually agreed 1993 or unilateral 1959? If its 1993, then is @MEAIndia lying abt no violations? #LadakhBorder
Apr 5, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
A thread: Shades of bigotry.
1. The relentless online #Islamophia & #Muslims hatred prompted a chat on family WhatsApp group. I said, unlike #IndianMuslims who come across several #Hindus in their lifetime, given d demography, a large number of Hindus have no opportunity...
2. To meet or interact with #Muslims; esp those who come with family traditions of #RSS. Hence, they tend to believe all kinds of propaganda because they grow up listening to that & never get a chance to see that it's all a lie. To this, my sister in law said, but what about...
I was born in a Muslim area. However, as soon as my father could afford, he built a house in 'Hindu' area, which was better & more developed. To begin wth, it had sewer line. So now we could have attached bathroom wth flush toilets 1/10
Ours was d only Muslim house here. Old neighbours & well-wishers dissuaded my father, but he aspired for a better quality of life for himself & his family. 1 of my youngest uncles moved in with us. Two of my middle uncles stayed back in d #ghetto. D diff in r lifestyles grew 2/10
