SURGICAL STRIKES

SURGICAL STRIKES

God hates war, but God loves every soldier – Rick Warren

Surgical strikes damaged India more than they did Pakistan.
Pakistan lost a few Jihadis; India lost the plot: Indian polity was split down the middle between those who applauded the strikes and those who called the army liars.
“Do not destroy the army,” is our appeal to the Leftist, Centrist, Rightist, Secularist, Communalist, Caste-ist – that is to all those whose calling is real politic and whose pope is Henry Kissinger: “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
Kissinger was wrong then. He is wrong now.

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ASIAN UNION

Amidst rising India-Pakistan bellicosity, the notion of an ‘Asian Union’ along the lines of European Union, is like a salve on a deep wound that needs radical surgery. Improbable though it is, Asian Union is not a pipe dream. It will not happen in the next few decades. But in the next hundred years – who knows? Continue reading ASIAN UNION