BK : Modi-Adani are compromising defence indigenization
A go-getter politician’s link up with a go-getting financier is always a paying proposition for the latter.
Category: Bharat Karnad
BK : Putting eggs in the China basket – chickens coming home to roost !
Forewarned apparently does not, for the BJP government, mean being forearmed.
BK : Modi campaigning for Trump “spells trouble”
It doesn’t seem Modi got more out of Trump than Imran did with lot less effort and and near zero expenditure of money
Bharat Karnad :India’s missing kootayudha (covert warfare)
Bharat Karnad talks about traditional Indian statecraft and in the country’s external policies
Bharat Karnad: If this is nationalism, it is of a type I’m unaware of
By Bharat Karnad on Security Wise [Building a Fully Connected Chinese Intelligence world alright!] Soon after trashing Article 370, the first instinct of the Modi government was — no guesses here — to conciliate. S. Jaishankar, the external affairs minister and designated batter whenever China or the US hove into view, was sent off running […]
Payoffs post-Trump-Imran meeting
From: Bharat Karnad (PAF’s 2-seater F-16D) The dust has not quite settled on the little matter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting Donald Trump, per Trump, to mediate on the Kashmir dispute. Because, in the face of foreign minister K Jaishankar’s “categorical denial” in Parliament regarding any such request, the US President’s Special Assistant Larry […]