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 By Nitin Gokhale
China at 60: Showing off
Sunday September 27, 2009
Sixty years ago when Chairman Mao and his comrades-in-arms established the Peoples Republic of China, the world did not know how to react. Winston Churchill’s description of Russia - A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma - seemed to fit China of 1949 more than Russia.
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The China challenge
Friday September 18, 2009
Many in the government have privately blamed the media of indulging in hype in reporting Chinese incursions.
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The story behind the book
Saturday August 22, 2009
The idea of writing this book popped into my mind on a short flight from Indore to Delhi. I was flying back after a talk on Military-Media relations at the prestigious Indian Army War College in Mhow.
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Let's not forget them
Sunday July 12, 2009
Every July since the year 2000, the Indian media and the Army in that order, celebrates the eviction of Pakistani intruders from the forbidding heights of Drass and Batalik (and not Kargil, as we all in the media keep referring to for some completely unfathomable reason).
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Racism in another form
Tuesday June 30, 2009, New Delhi
The fact is: the rest of India does not care about the north-east region or its people. And the people in rest of the country make no attempt to understand or learn about the distant land. The level of ignorance is something that needs to be experienced to be believed. In fact, I tell all my relations and friends back in Maharashtra that they know more about Houston or Boston than Kohima or Kokrajhar!
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The on-off India-China relationship
Wednesday June 17, 2009
The sub-continent’s focus this week was understandably on Tuesday's bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan on the sidelines of two important multilateral gatherings held at Yekaterinburg in Russia.
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Sri Lanka: Now, to win peace
Friday June 19, 2009, New Delhi
Exactly a month ago, on 19th May, the world watched and heard in disbelief, the death of Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE, unarguably the world's most dreaded, most potent and most innovative terror group.
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Tiananmen and after
Thursday June 4, 2009
Twenty years ago to the day, a small gathering of students and jobless workers in Beijing upstaged what was then considered an historic rapprochement between China and the Soviet Union.
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Double standards of the West
Monday June 1, 2009, New Delhi, India
If ever there was a ripe case for a well-planned and executed military operation, here it was in Sri Lanka. President Mahinda Rajapakse and his team went about prosecuting what, by all accounts, was a legitimate war. But the world, the Western world went into an overdrive to stop Colombo.
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Nitin Gokhale
A student of conflicts, insurgencies and wars, Nitin Gokhale has spent 26 years reporting on military and militants from various hostile fields like India's north-east, Kashmir valley, the Kargil war, China and Sri Lanka, among others. He's currently NDTV's Defence and Strategic Affairs Editor.