India has ‘proof of ISI involvement’
But it is also wary of walking into trap of escalating hostility …5 Decmber 2008The Hindu India has ‘proof of ISI involvement’ But it is also wary of walking into … Continue reading
India’s Pakistan problem is Pakistan’s problem too
If politics and emotion do not dictate India’s response, the terrorist strikes in Mumbai could be a catalyst for ending the Pakistani military’s fatal patronage of jihadi groups… 3 December … Continue reading
Dead men can also tell tales
2 December 2008The Hindu Dead men can also tell tales Siddharth Varadarajan New Delhi: Investigators have managed to piece together what they know about the planning and execution of last … Continue reading
Deccan Mujahideen email — Obvious attempt to hide tracks
I just read the Deccan Mujahideen email. It is so full of basic spelling mistakes that it has clearly been machine transliterated. No native speaker of the language was on … Continue reading
Four weeks for a SIM card Vs. 5 years for a million dollar note a.k.a. And what about India’s Haneefs?
Ever since the Haneef arrest and New Delhi’s welcome intervention in the case, I had been meaning to write something about India’s pathetic record as far as the domestic treatment … Continue reading
The Haneef transcript in full
The Australian, which leaked the transcript of Dr. Mohammed Haneef’s July 3 police interrogration, has now scrubbed the link from its website. But The Hindu downloaded it before it was … Continue reading
Keep the peace process on track
For the third time in less than a year, terrorists have attempted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan. Handing them a victory is the last thing we … Continue reading
A fishy story
Virtually every newspaper in India today has front-paged the police account of an ‘encounter’ with two terrorists in Mysore. According to the official version, the two alleged terrorists — Mohammad … Continue reading
Limit to tolerance, but options are limited too
Despite the Musharraf regime’s equivocation on terrorism, India will gain nothing by allowing the authors of the Mumbai blasts to disrupt the peace process with Pakistan. 17 July 2006The Hindu … Continue reading
Terror of the ‘war against terror’
Is there room within this rapid “securitisation” of life for individual freedoms and civic concerns to assert themselves? 1 January 2006Sunday Magazine, The Hindu Terror of the ‘war against terror’ … Continue reading
India is vulnerable in Afghanistan
The brutal murder of an Indian driver by the Taliban is a reminder that India has plenty of hands wielding shovels in Afghanistan but no boots on the ground there. … Continue reading
The dodgy underbelly of India’s war on terror
In their search for quick results, the police have allowed the real conspirators behind the terrorist attack on Parliament to get away. 26 August 2005The Hindu The dodgy underbelly of … Continue reading
Playing on fear, from Godhra to Guantanamo
June 13, 2005The Hindu Opinion – Leader Page Articles Playing on fear, from Godhra to Guantanamo Siddharth Varadarajan As governments across the world realise that the fear of terrorism can … Continue reading
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