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Shankar Roychowdhury
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General Shankar Roychowdhury is a former Chief of Army Staff and a former member of Parliament.
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    Shankar Roychowdhury | Looking back at 1971: How India cut Pak down to...

    From India’s point of view, it was to pay Pakistan back for torturing its own population and consequently creating an...

    15 Dec 2021 8:43 PM

    It’s time to revise India’s strategy, pay back Pakistan in its own coinOpinion
    It’s time to revise India’s strategy, pay back Pakistan in its own...

    India’s accumulated rage and exasperation at Pakistan and its sponsorship of separatist terrorism in Kashmir has...

    16 March 2019 2:33 AM

    Vehicles set on fire by protesters against the killing of CRPF personnel in the Pulwama terror attack.Opinion
    Pulwama: Let forces respond, keep politics out

    The Indian Army is a dynamic organisation and with a proud record of being professionally competent, totally apolitical,...

    26 Feb 2019 9:00 PM

    Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar near his residence in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    State police-Centre confrontation can have dangerous fallout; defuse...

    The Saradha-Narada cases are well known now, though interesting details continue to be regurgitated in the media as...

    11 Feb 2019 7:43 PM

    The Rafale deal is among the largest government defence contracts in history and plausible suspicion of wrongdoing has been raised, especially by Congress president Rahul Gandhi. (Representational image)Opinion
    Soul-searching is needed: India's ship of state' near breaking point

    In the run-up to the general election of 2019, the country is seemingly at war with itself.

    15 Jan 2019 8:35 PM

    In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the US against gun violence Saturday, vowing to transform fear and grief into a vote-them-out movement. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Guns and violence in America & India: A study in contrasts

    The respective constitutional positions of the two countries are totally opposite.

    11 Jun 2018 7:16 PM

    Palestinian protesters carry an injured man who was shot by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strips border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Is the Cold War starting all over again?

    To a watching world it was a graphic demonstration of iron-fisted crowd control by the Israeli security forces, circa...

    29 May 2018 7:03 PM

    US envoy Nikki Haley cited Trumps stepped-up action to try to hasten a political solution to the war, including a strike punishing Assads forces for using chemical weapons that the Syrian opposition and its backers have enthusiastically applauded.Opinion
    If Syria implodes, India will be hit

    The Shia-Sunni pandemic smouldering in the world of Islam can intensify and spread to the subcontinent, on India's...

    1 May 2018 1:56 AM

    Seema cries over the coffin of her husband Sonu, who was killed in Iraq, at the International Airport in Amritsar on Monday. The bodies of 38 Indian construction workers kidnapped and murdered in Iraq by the Islamic State group returned home on Monday, four years after their disappearance. Grieving families who were told for years by government officials that their loved ones were still alive waited at an airport in the northwest state of Punjab to receive the coffins from Baghdad. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Threats to India grow, but do our netas care?

    This task has not been made easier by gau rakshaks and other assorted fundamentalists and criminals who have caused so...

    2 April 2018 8:55 PM

    Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft (Photo: Youtube screengrab)Opinion
    How long must IAF wait for its new fighter?

    The Indian Air Force had long decided that the MiG-21 had to be replaced at the earliest.

    19 March 2018 7:07 PM

    Pakistan continues with an unchanged Kashmir policy of a thousand-year jihad against India.Opinion
    Time for strategy shift: Hit Pak where it hurts

    Can India devise and invoke a Chanakya doctrine of secret and undeclared wars' against a treacherous enemy?

    15 Feb 2018 7:38 PM

    A huge crowd of protesters had converged on the spot after which the cow vigilantes started thrashing those slaughtering the buffalo. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    The perils of hyper-nationalism

    The armed forces are the very last bastion of the country's composite identity and its national integrity.

    24 July 2017 7:15 PM

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