Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus
by Apurba Kundu
Taurus Academic Studies, London, 1998
230 pp, GBP 45
The Left Front may win another election, but the time has come to look beyond Basu.
The communist government of West Bengal may have managed to become the longest-serving popularly
Beyond failure of military intelligence, Kargil represents New Delhi's intellectual bankruptcy. A Ladakhi scholar in New Delhi provides a different perspective.
The Pakistani intrusion in Kargil has a
For Pakistan, Kargil may be a calculated miscalculation. India has to mask its initial intelligence failure by regaining the peaks regardless of heavy casualties. Both sides need a face-saving way
Free software allows users to look into the computer's software, and not treat it just as a mystical black box.
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The Gurkha pensioner gets less than his British government. This is colonial legacy that creates an underclass of loyal, but cheap, soldiers.
Perhaps it was fated that among the first
Savaging the Civilised
by Ramachandra Guha
OUP. New Delhi, 1999
pp x+398
