INDUS TREATY TO PUNISH PAKISTAN?
NEW DELHI: From around the early 1990s, when Pakistan was unabashedly exporting terrorism into India, a few realists in the Indian establishment advanced the argument that India needed to use the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) to punish Pakistan, writes noted Pakistan watcher journalist Sushant Sareen. He writes that the successive governments in New Delhi balked […]
SAVARKAR’S MERCY PLEAS: HIS GRAND SON VS RAHUL GANDHI
(Photo) Curtesy : Deccan Chronicle NEW DELHI: Satyaki Savarkar, the grandson of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, told a Pune court on Wednesday that Savarkar’s release from British imprisonment was not the result of mercy petitions he had filed, but the outcome of political efforts. Satyaki Savarkar has filed a criminal defamation case against Congress leader Rahul […]
The Birth of a Republic; USA at 250: The American Revolution and the Burden of Global Power
From Discovery to Colonisation The story of American independence did not begin on 4 July 1776. Its roots lie in the great maritime explorations of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when advances in navigation enabled European powers to venture beyond familiar seas. Portuguese explorers opened the sea route around Africa to India, while […]
