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The writer is a journalist based in New Delhi and a founding partner of CSDR Consulting

This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs shows the Galwan Valley area in the Ladakh region near the Line of Actual Control between India and China Tuesday, June 16, 2020. ( AP Photo)

Saikat Datta | Losing face to the Chinese

The ongoing disengagement is a setback to Indiaâ€™s strategic interests

9 July 2020 12:47 AM IST

Indian soldiers perform yoga to mark the International Day of Yoga, in Ladakh on June 21, 2020. (PTI)

Saikat Datta | India-'s intel agencies make no use of big data...

The Galwan Valley skirmish and the COVID-19 crisis have both showed up our intelligence frailties

26 Jun 2020 10:38 AM IST

Indian army soldiers ride in a convoy along a highway leading towards Leh, bordering China, in Gagangir on 17 June 2020. (AFP)

Chinese intrusions and India-'s limited options

Reliable military and intelligence sources now say that the death toll of Indian soldiers is higher and could be more...

18 Jun 2020 7:09 PM IST

File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi chairing a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority in New Delhi in 2018. (PIB)

Saikat Datta: Why we lurch from one disaster to another

We have no institutional memory of what worked and what didn't in past crises

11 April 2020 11:12 PM IST

A policeman wearing a protective mask in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, walks past a deserted Gateway of India in Mumbai on March 19, 2020. (PTI)

India must bridgeÂ huge gaps to tackle Covid-19

India has a one-page law, passed in 1897, with four bare sections to deal with epidemics

20 March 2020 8:40 AM IST

A child Khushi plays with her toys in her burnt house which was attacked in the recent clashes in Delhi. (PTI)

Memories of another riot: Lessons of 1984 not learnt

The Congress Party never recovered from that genocide. But nor did we.

13 March 2020 9:10 PM IST