Now that things are hotting up on the India China front it might be useful to read what is widely considered amongst the better books on the 1962 war. It is called Guilty Men of 1962 by D.R.Mankekar.

A precis of the book and uploaded on esamskriti. http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/Indo-Chinese-war-of-1962-1.aspx

Chapters are:

1. Offering ( Read more... )

Ideally, every right spirited person wants a world with no borders, peace and harmony. But are we (India) really heading towards that, with increasingly hostile neighbors? Maloy Dhar, former Head of Intelligence Bureau, and author of many (fiction and non-fiction) books, writes on the relevance of current-day Indian borders, its neighbors and how ( Read more... )

As you already know Francois Gautier (a french born journalist) is struggling hard to construct a musuem of Indian History as per archaelogical and historical records at Pune. No Hindu statesman / industrialist ever thought of such a relevant thing. Thanks to Gautier that he is doing that. But ofcourse we have leftists in US who is opposing this ( Read more... )

Some strategists are crying that China will attack India in a few years. Some say it cannot happen between two nuclear nations or atleast when US is with us. Well is really US with us? US seems to be in a hurry to get an honorable exit from Afghan and do not want to indulge in any tensions outside its land. Its own problems of economic recession ( Read more... )

An excellent article on Tipu's true nature. This article voices the Tipu's intolerance (already known to people of Mysore, Srirangapatna, Mangalore, Malabar) with documented facts. In modern days, he would have won hands-down with Osama-bin-laden or any of those jihadi LeT, JuD folks. Francois Gautier is building a museum on history of India in ( Read more... )

Recently there was an article from Chinese non-governmental body on this being the right time to dismember India with a little effort. There were serious uproar in concerned Indian civil society with the knowledge that: everything gets published in China with that government's permission. Then there were some sensationalizing (barring "The Hindu") ( Read more... )

Most of the rivers of north India (except Ganga) start from Tibetan plateau. After the invasion, slaughter and annexation of Tibet by China six decades ago, now India has to confront China on water. China has not accepted for India's long-standing demand on transparency on water related information about these rivers. In fact, some of the floods ( Read more... )

Taxonomoy of Hindus by Sandeep.

We have several specimens of people who call themselves Hindus:

1. Tearing-my-chest-Hindus: Firebrand Hindus whose commitment to, and faith in Hinduism is unquestionable but usually lack the intellectual rigour to defend attacks on Sanatana Dharma.
2. Intellectual Hindus: Scholarly types who are up for a good debate anytime ( Read more... )

The noises in Indian media about Indo-Pak joint statement are deafening. Indian PM meets Gilani and accepts resuming Indo-Pak peace talks. His rationale is that: we gotta talk unless we are at war.  He quotes Reagan "Trust but verify". The opposition claims it as a blunder,  a foreign policy sell-out. Pak will think that its tactics of drawing ( Read more... )

We know the sage Vishwamitra who discovered Gayatri for the benefit of humanity. In modern days, Sriram Sharma Acharya stands as a friend to the whole world (Vishwa-mitra). He founded "All World Gayatri Parivar" giving gayatri to everyone irrespective of caste, religion, gender or race. He took pains by maintaining rigorous discipline and complete ( Read more... )