Category: Opinion
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CHINA’S TACTICS
Situation is Galwan Valley of Ladakh has turned serious with clashes between two armies resulting in casualties that democratic India has no reason to hide and China has no compulsion to admit. China’s aggressiveness in Ladakh is timed with the rising condemnation of its regime that kept Coronavirus pandemic under wraps and inflicted a catastrophe…
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Are our “Military Experts” playing the Dragon’s Tune?
Brig Anil Gupta The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which controls the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) does not plan operations only on the ‘physical battlefield’ only but invests with adequate resources in “PoliticalWarfare” as well. Among “3 Ws” which form the core strategy of political warfare, the first ‘W’ deals with Public Opinion Warfare or the…
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Desertification and Drought: The Big Challenge to the World
Priyanka Saurabh Desertification is the process of degradation and infertility of the land, in which the land of arid, semi-arid, and dehydrated semi-moist areas is turned into a desert due to many other reasons including climate change and human activities. Therefore, the productive capacity of the land decreases and decreases. In his video message on…
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FOOD SECURITY THROUGH FOOD SAFETY
Dr. Parveen Kumar, Dr. R. K. Arora, Dr. Pawan Sharma Food safety and food security are very intricately linked with each other having a profound impact on quality of human life. While food security is the adequacy of food to society, the equitable distribution, confirmed supply, fair access and sustained sources; food safety on the other hand encompasses many…
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How will the future be saved from special child labor
Dr. Satyawan Saurabh, The United Nations defines child labor as work that deprives children of their childhood, dignity, and potential, which is detrimental to their physical and mental health. Interferes with children’s school life. Child labor exists as a threat to the world today. Today’s children are the future of tomorrow. The progress and development…
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To Tame the Dragon Is Status Quo the Answer
Brig Anil Gupta The standoff at Doklam in 2017 is followed by another and bigger standoff in Eastern Ladakh in 2020 with defence analysts, diplomats and strategic experts predicting the frequency to be almost annual due to the ostensible Chinese annoyance at the rapid rate of development of infrastructure along the LAC by India which…
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WAR AND POLITICS
Foreign affairs and a pandemic should see a bipartisan approach from political parties since both these situations are extraordinary and have repercussions on all Indians. Regrettably, in India, this tacit principle has been discarded. Both the tension with China on Ladakh frontier and the Coronavirus Pandemic has been politicized by the opposition parties, mainly Congress,…
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The sacrifice of Ajay Pandita should not go in vain
Dr. Simrit Kahlon The brutal murder of Ajay Pandita in Village Lukbawan, Larkipora, District Anantnag has sent shock waves across Kashmir. Ajay Pandita was a member of the Congress party and Sarpanch of his Village. He and his family had migrated in early 1990’s but returned to their native land around two years back. Responsibility for…
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DAMNING REPORT
Pakistan continues to be shamed for supporting terrorism in the region and beyond as the latest report of the United Nations has talked about two proscribed outfits – Laskah-e-toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad that operate out of the country. Both these are named as outfits that have made Afghanistan’s border areas as their base with a view…
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Indo-China border management: Well established protocols should be abided with
Jasbir Sarai As India and China continue with their face-off at multiple points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) it becomes imperative to revisit the various agreements and protocols that guide the management of the LAC. There are “five pacts” that both sides have, over time, agreed upon to maintain “peace and tranquility” along the borders.…