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| November 24, 2009 | |
How India can prevent another 26/11
In his new book Mumbai 26/11: A Day of Infamy, B Raman takes a typically incisive look at last November's terror carnage in Mumbai, which he believes was truly an attack by Pakistan on India, and suggests ways we can prevent a recurrence of such attacks.
Exclusive: 'After 26/11 I think good deeds pay'
Taj star Chef Hemant Oberoi looks back on that horrific night.
'I don't want Kasab to be given a death sentence'
A year ago, Kia Scherr lost her husband and 13-year-old daughter in the Mumbai terror attacks. Yet, reports Arthur J Pais from Virginia, USA, they remain a constant presence in her life, as she channels grief into service.
Can this lead to another 26/11 attack?
Will lax coastal security, corruption among the Customs, Fisheries department and the local police lead to another 26/11 kind of terrorist attack on India?
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| November 20, 2009 | |
Headley revelations may embarrass Mumbai police
The Union home ministry believes the newly-formed National Investigation Agency will have to reinvestigate the 26/11 case if the David Headley-Tahawwur Rana probe produces unexpected links with the Mumbai terror attacks. This will be a serious matter and hit the Mumbai police's credibility.
Averting another Kuber: Protecting Gujarat's coast
How the Border Security Force, the Coast Guard, the Navy and the marine police in Gujarat is maintaining a day-night vigil to protect India's western coast.
In 26/11 horror, some brilliant humanity stood out
A year after 26/11, Helen Connolly, a yoga instructor from Canada, remembers her friends who died, describes her own healing and chronicles the light that shone through that horror.
No compensation for 26/11 cab owners
'I am glad my driver's wife got compensation, but am I not entitled to anything? I have been running around for succour but have not received even sympathy.'
US: Expert who infuriated India offered key post
Christine Fair, who infuriated New Delhi when she alleged that India was meddling in Balochistan, has been offered the India portfolio in the Obama administration.
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| November 19, 2009 | |
Jews begin long road to recovery in Mumbai
A year after terror ripped apart Chabad House, Matthew Schneeberger walks down the lanes of Nariman House to gauge the mood at the Jewish centre.
'In the short term, Naxalism won't go'
Mahendra Kumawat has a lifetime experience of dealing with Maoists, terrorists and other militancy. He explains why the fight against the Maoists will be a long and arduous one.
'People just don't care about 26/11'
'The day after the attack, people were roaming this area, dressed like they were going to a party!' says an angry man who lost his brother that day.
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| November 13, 2009 | |
Why Lankan war hero Fonseka and Rajapaksa broke up
According to General Sarath Fonseka's retirement letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, it all boils down to the government's fears of a military coup and its mistrust of Sri Lanka's first and only serving four-star general.
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| November 11, 2009 | |
The unsung cops of 26/11
A Ganesh Nadar tracks down four Mumbai police officers who confronted the terrorists on 26/11, but whose bravery that night has gone unnoticed or unrewarded.
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| November 06, 2009 | |
'Why did I have to sacrifice my life for the cause of justice?'
'It is not that neighbours turned around and killed the Sikhs one fine night. It was a systematic massacre carried out with the help of voters's lists. There were public meetings in places like Yamuna Park and Paharganj to plot and plan the killings. The police, instead of protecting people, killed them,' alleges Jarnail Singh.
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| November 05, 2009 | |
Why is the Dalai Lama going to Tawang?
'His presence in Tawang is a silent reiteration that the McMahon Line was and is the border between Tibet and India,' says Claude Arpi.
9 terrorists’ bodies at 4 degrees Centigrade
A Ganesh Nadar visits the mortuary in Mumbai, where the bodies of the terrorists killed in the 26/11 attacks are kept.
'We're possibly the most corrupt society in the world'
Ravi Gulati left a corporate job and took to teaching children of drivers, barbers and maids near his home in Delhi's Khan Market. 'I don't expect the kids to pay me back but pay it forward," he says.
26/11: 'Local angle needed greater attention'
'I do feel even today that the local angle has not received the attention it deserved. I find it difficult to accept that only two Indians were involved. There has been very strong evidence of their involvement, but the possible involvement of others should be looked into,' says B Raman.
How Rahul Gandhi's clout is growing
Sheela Bhatt explores and explains the phenomenon and what it means for the Congress party and the nation's politics.
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| October 30, 2009 | |
'Sonia carries the Indira legacy'
'Indira Gandhi was a great influence on Sonia Gandhi. Like her mother-in-law, Sonia is a very good listener.
She dresses very much like her mother-in-law. She maintains her figure.' K Natwar Singh pays tribute to Indira Gandhi.
'Indira took the bull by the horns fearlessly'
B S Raghavan, West Bengal's former chief secretary, worked with Indira Gandhi for many years. He remembers the late leader on her 25th death anniversary.
Mrs Gandhi: Fearlessness in the national interest
'Fearlessness, courtesy, humour, wide interests and wisdom, deep commitment to science and technology, passion for the environment, objectivity and the ability to see many things through not only a national but also an international prism -- these were some aspects of her life and personality.' R Rajamani fondly remembers Indira Gandhi on her 25th death anniversary.
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| October 22, 2009 | |
Analysis: Why Cong-NCP won despite poor governance
The Maharashtra results are not a win for the Congress' strengths but represent the voters desire for stability. In Maharahstra, the Congress has won due to the minimalist nature of hope of its voters.
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| October 15, 2009 | |
Pakistan's merchants of terror
Tahir Ali profiles the Amjad Farooqi and Ilyas Kashmiri groups, responsible for the recent surge of terrorism in Pakistan.
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| October 08, 2009 | |
Why Venky Ramakrishnan is a great scientist
'A very rare trait that Venky has is he not only speaks of his own work, but also integrates the work of other scientists. This is what makes Venky a perfect and a very great scientist.'
'Without Gandhi, there would be no Obama'
'The teachings of Gandhi, the philosophy of passive resistance and nonviolence, and also taught by Martin Luther King Jr, inspired hundreds and thousands and millions of citizens in America, and helped to free and liberate not just a people, but a nation,' says US Congressman John Lewis, a close friend of Dr King.
How India missed another Nobel Prize
How Narinder Kapany, the Father of Fibre Optics, joins a very long list of Indians who, though richly deserving of the Nobel Prize, have been mysteriously passed over by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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| October 01, 2009 | |
China: A full circle 60 years later
As Chinese celebrate the People's Republic of China's 60th anniversary, Claude Arpi explores the rise of the dragon from the days of the Cultural Revolution to its projection of itself as a soft superpower in the modern world.
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| September 25, 2009 | |
Local help is a must to defeat Maoists
A traumatised 'villager' led forces to the Maoist weapons manufacturing factory inside the forests of Chhattisgarh.
The way forward for the US-India story
'India and US relations move forward on the basis of potential and opportunities in the context of our bilateral relations,' says India's ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar.
Men behind the space mission
The successful launch of seven satellites on Wednesday has placed India among the best in the field of space research. And, behind the success story of the launch is a team that has been silently working for five long years.
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| September 24, 2009 | |
Many more battles to be won against Maoists
The most significant aspect of the anti-Maoist offensive in Chhattisgarh is the destruction of the rebels's arms manufacturing factory.
The pilot who is a fighter
M P Anil Kumar was a dashing MiG-21 pilot in the Indian Air Force when a road accident left him paralaysed below the neck. He was just 24. For the past 19 years he has lived in the military's Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre in Pune and has become an inspiration to many in the manner in which he has picked up the threads of his life. Continuing out series on Extraordinary Indians.
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| September 23, 2009 | |
New war against the Maoists
Having lost six of their men -- including two high-ranking officers -- the security forces, who restarted their battle against the Maoist insurgency with renewed vigour, are buoyant for one particular reason. Operation Red Hunt in Chattisgarh is a psychological victory for the forces that were till recently firmly on the backfoot in their fight against red terror.
Kobad Ghandy: The gentle revolutionary
His arrest has created a sensation, given his affluent origins in Mumbai and his elite Doon School -- where he was Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi's classmate -- and London education. Ghandy is an intellectual supporting the Maoists in various ways, and has no criminal record whatsoever.
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| September 20, 2009 | |
How a former Pakistani commando became a terrorist
He was once General Pervez Musharraf's blue eyed boy, receiving a cash award of Rs 100,000 in 2000 from Pakistan's then president for killing an Indian Army officer. Eighteen months later, after 9/11, Musharraf declared him a terrorist.
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| September 16, 2009 | |
'By fasting, I am paying for my life after death'
By fasting during Ramzan, Kader Mohideen carries forward the faith of his forefathers. His knowledge of computers has not dimmed his belief in the Quran. In that there is a lesson for this materialistic world.
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| September 14, 2009 | |
A soldier remembers
On the 70th anniversary of World War II, Major General Eustace D'Souza, a young soldier in those battles, looks back at the war that changed the world.
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| September 11, 2009 | |
Lashkar funded Mumbai attacks with fake currency
Some of the money used to finance the terror attacks in Mumbai last November and the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru in December 2005 came via a fake currency racket, sources from the Intelligence Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation have revealed.
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| September 08, 2009 | |
How ISI masterminds fake currency racket in India
Vicky Nanjappa reveals how thieves working for Pakistan's ISI stole the template for Rs 500 and 1,000 currency notes, to improve the quality of fake currency being printed across the border.
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| September 07, 2009 | |
'Dr YSR was a very devoted Christian'
'There is no doubt he is with the Lord in heaven. He loved people and people poured their love on him. It was the people's love that got him elected as chief minister for a second term.'
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| September 04, 2009 | |
Why India can't ask Interpol to trace Bhatkal
Riyaz Bhatkal's name crops up in almost every terror investigation in India, but Indian security agencies are yet to issue an Interpol red corner notice against the terrorist because of a legal loophole.
The Iron Lady of Manipur
Irom Sharmila, has been fasting for 9 years against a controversial law.
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| August 31, 2009 | |
The importance of the Dalai Lama's Taiwan visit
The Dalai Lama is right to reach out to ordinary Chinese; in the long run, it could only pay rich dividends, but the results won't probably be seen in the immediate future, says Claude Arpi.
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| August 25, 2009 | |
Watch out Dr Singh, Sonia's coming
Sheela Bhatt reveals how Sonia Gandhi has decided to take an active role in governance with the resurrection of the National Advisory Council. A rediff exclusive!
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| August 20, 2009 | |
How India secretly helped Lanka destroy the LTTE
Publicly, India maintained it would not give Sri Lanka any offensive weapons. The Congress party obviously did not want the shadow of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict to fall on the politics of Tamil Nadu and needlessly complicate matters during the election campaign. A fascinating exclusive excerpt from Nitin Gokhale's new book, Sri Lanka: From War to Peace.
'Almost every Muslim was with Gandhi, not Jinnah'
History might be better understood if we did not treat it as a heroes-and-villains movie, says eminent journalist and author M J Akbar, elucidating on the Jinnah factor in pre-Independent India.
Jaswant's expulsion is the BJP's gift to the RSS
Sheela Bhatt on whay India's main Opposition party expelled one of its founding members.
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| August 19, 2009 | |
Who was Jinnah?
Jaswant Singh's biography of M A Jinnah has cost him his place in the BJP. Syed Firdaus Ashraf looks at Jinnah and his controversial place in India's history.
Afghanistan: Ballot versus bullets
Afghanistan elects a new president on August 20 against the background of horrific violence.
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| August 18, 2009 | |
The case for and against Jinnah
What several eminent intellectuals said at the launch of Jaswant controversial book, Jinnah India, Partition, Independence.
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| August 17, 2009 | |
Death from 30,000 feet above
What are these drones? How do they work? And most importantly, why have they killed only 15 terrorists and 687 civilians?
The doctor who charges only Rs 2
Not only is he a doctor and social worker, Dr R Koelhe has also taken the government to court for having failed in its duty to protect the Korku tribals of the region.
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| August 13, 2009 | |
'India has designs to destabilise Pakistan'
Former Inter Services Intelligence chief Lieutenant General. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, claims that the US, Israel, and India are behind efforts to destabilise Pakistan.
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| August 12, 2009 | |
The chinks in India's armour
The CAG's 2008 audit report points out several irregularities in defence deals, ranging from procurement of arms to cost incurred for wasteful research and development.
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| August 11, 2009 | |
'India can't be indifferent on any global issue'
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta, who retires from the Indian Navy at the month-end, delivered a powerful speech on 'National Security Challenges' at a conference organised by the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi on Monday. Not surprisingly, for an admiral known for speaking his mind, it was a speech marked by characteristic candour.
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| August 10, 2009 | |
The death of a 'bad Taliban'
Pakistani Taliban elements can be broadly divided into two groups, the 'good Taliban' and the 'bad Taliban'.'Good Taliban' are those who never target Pakistani armies and their focus remains on Afghanistan, while the 'bad Taliban' mainly attack Pakistani government installations and often seek refuge across the border.
China should break up the Indian Union, suggests Chinese strategist
China, Zhan Lue argues, should join forces with different nationalities like the Assamese, Tamils, and Kashmiris and support the latter in establishing independent nation-States of their own out of India.
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| August 05, 2009 | |
Cyber security threat to India is real
The attackers are not confined to information infrastructures and geographical boundaries. They exploit network interconnections and navigate easily through the infrastructure. More worryingly, these cyber criminals are becoming more skilled at masking their behaviour.
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| July 24, 2009 | |
Confessions of a bomb maker
The conspiracy behind the 2008 terror attacks in Bengaluru and Surat has been revealed following the confession of 57-year-old Edapana Thodika Zainuddin alias Abdul Sattar, a resident of Malappuram in Kerala, who was arrested by the Hyderabad police for alleged links with the Indian Mujahideen.
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| July 23, 2009 | |
Mr Antony, what's your agenda for India's defence?
'With the Chinese behemoth having revved up into a menacing juggernaut, with the US administration indulging Pakistan with billions to buy choicest weapons, our haemorrhaging armed forces are crying to be outfitted with lethal weaponry. Antony has to find ways to bridle red tape and to fast-track acquisitions and upgrades before it is too late.'
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| July 22, 2009 | |
End-Use Monitoring Agreement: A Factsheet
'The government ought to have taken Parliament into confidence on the EUMA rather than place on record just the two sentences on the agreement found in Krishna's statement on Clinton's visit.'
Retracing my father's footsteps in Sharm-el-Sheikh
'The India he represented in 1961 was a fledgling democracy; it was struggling to establish itself in the world polity. The India I represent rubs shoulders with the rich nations of the world.'
People's President is treated badly in India too
'We as citizens should be bothered about how a former President is treated. It is about the institution of the Presidency and not about any individual.'
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| June 23, 2009 | |
Injured 26/11 NSG commando speaks out
Captain A K Singh, who lost his eye during the 26/11 operations, is bitter at his fate, but hopeful that something good is round the corner.
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| June 22, 2009 | |
Knowing Mumbai's new top cop better
The Tamil Nadu-born Sivanandan taught economics for three years and shot to fame -- almost literally -- during his momentous tenure as head of the Mumbai Crime Branch during the late nineties. During his two-year stint as joint commissioner (crime), over 250 members of the Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan gangs were shot dead in police encounters.
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| June 04, 2009 | |
Kamala Das, The Muse, stilled forever
No Malayalam writer -- living or dead -- wrote as beautifully as she did. Beautiful was it in every sense of the word. Another prolific writer M T Vasudevan Nair paid rich tributes to her when he said if someone made him jealous by the mastery over language, it was Madhavikutty. Such tributes hardly came in her way for the last few years. It was rather tribulation all the way.
'Now is the time for Indian industry to be bold'
'Each society has its wisdom. We remember these values at home, but forget about them when we go to work,' says Indian School of Business Dean Ajit Rangnekar.
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| June 03, 2009 | |
20 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre
China's reigning party killed thousands of its own children on Tiananmen Square at dawn on June 4, 1989. Today, the regime in Beijing is not ready to admit to any wrong doing or consider changes in its policies.
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| June 01, 2009 | |
Pakistan army still calls the shots
There is little or no evidence that the return to representative rule in Pakistan last year means the supremacy of civilian government. The so-called permanent establishment remains in place -- the military, top echelons of bureaucracy and the intelligence agencies. The army continues to be in the driving seat with regard to foreign and defence policy, internal security and nuclear policy.
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