The Kashmir discourse in the West always takes the form of an Indian discourse and a Pakistani discourse. Both are mainstream statist narratives.  A true independent Kashmiri narrative, a Kashmiri perspective has yet to take root and this is lamentable. Recognising the importance of such a discourse to the world, eight scholars in the US [...]

Late last year, a whole day seminar on “India’s Tryst with Destiny” organised at the SOAS by the Tagoreans, the longest established Bengali cultural organisation in London, had participants and speakers leave the venue at the end of the day with no qualms over the difficult terrain that lay before the world’s largest democracy, in [...]

Your article in Confluence http://www.confluence.org.uk/2008/11/07/indian-foreign-policy-in-the-21st-century/- Response Part 2
Comment – on India’s military
You spoke earlier of “a rapidly modernising military”. Why is India modernising its military? It is expending its precious foreign exchange purchasing sophisticated weapons and equipment from the usual aggressors – the US, Israel, Russia, France and UK, countries that have stirred up much [...]