“If India can’t even build a bridge…”
If the world can’t even feed its children, can it send people to the moon? Sadanand Dhume’s article entitled “Debacle in New Delhi” was published in Foreign Policy recently. In the context of the...
View ArticleOn Independence Day
India’s wars. In keeping with (what I think has become) custom at The Filter Coffee, here’s a short blogpost and some thoughts on this Independence Day. Most readers will be familiar with Jawaharlal...
View ArticleDancing in the dark
From darkness, can there be light? Three arterial power lines in northern India failed and plunged approximately 700 million people from 21 states and UTs into total darkness. Rail and air services...
View ArticleDamned lies and statistics
On Aakar Patel’s attempts to convince us that terror has decreased under the UPA. When I read Aakar Patel’s op-ed in Pakistan’s Express Tribune on the “successes” of the Manmohan Singh government in...
View ArticleBusiness as usual
The paralysis in decision making in New Delhi is adversely affecting India’s national security. Pakistani troops ambushed and killed five Indian soldiers belonging to the 21 Bihar regiment and 14...
View ArticleThe LoC Incident
Manmohan Singh must meet with Nawaz Sharif in New York. Even as we begin to fully understand the circumstances that led to the killing of five Indian jawans by Pakistani troops last week, we are...
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