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    Cover image of Dark Secrets: Politics, Intrigue and Proxy Wars in Kashmir by Iqbal Chand Malhotra. (By Arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Joining the dots to complete Partition puzzle

    Whatever it resulted in was a course of events for which India is dearly paying till date

    1 May 2022 12:55 AM IST

    Cover Image of the book Chinese Geopolitics In the 21st Century: A Post-Pandemic Perspective by Brig. Anand Tewari (Retd). (Twitter)Books
    Book Review | China's geopolitical risks are more in southeast than...

    The book tries to formulate well-researched geopolitical imperatives for China and predicts Chinese responses

    27 March 2022 12:40 AM IST

    Cover image of the book Afghanistan: The New Great Game Edited by Alok Bansal. (Twitter)Books
    Book Review | Who's who in the New Great Game that has started in...

    The US abandoning Afghanistan to let it fall to the Taliban is one of the greatest catastrophes of the 21st century

    20 Feb 2022 3:45 AM IST

    Bengal and Its Partition: An Untold Story By Bhaswati Mukherjee. (Amazon)Books
    Book Review | The many unknown acts of the great Bengal tragedy

    Mughals grabbed resources and richer land in the form of eastern Bengal and converted its residents into their own faith

    29 Jan 2022 6:44 PM IST

    Cover Image of Iqbal Chand Malhotras book Red Fear: The China Threat. (Twitter)Books
    Book Review | Communists & ultranationalists: China, India fell out 6...

    Having learnt the lessons of history better than India, China bided its time and positioned itself to humiliate India...

    26 Dec 2021 1:38 AM IST

    Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute By Maroof Raza. (Amazon photo)Books
    Book Review | Crouching Elephant, Hidden Dragon: This history is not...

    The resulting shortcomings in dealing with the Chinese have cost India dearly in terms of its security and progress

    20 Nov 2021 7:55 PM IST

    Cover Image of Gaurie Dwivedis How Will the World Counter China?.Books
    Book Review | Dragon rising: How India can help world

    The well-researched book takes a bird's eye view of the challenges that a rising and basically belligerent China...

    24 Oct 2021 2:59 AM IST

    On December 16, 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the Indian Army in the newly liberated Bangladesh. (Image: Amazon)Books
    Book Review | Rare and inspiring accounts from the 1971 war theatres

    A serious drawback for India is that for over 74 years since its independence, its actual history has not been taught in...

    12 Sept 2021 2:32 AM IST

    Following the tenure of Indias first Defence Minister, Baldev Singh, from September 1946 till May1952, there was no full-time cabinet rank defence minister till April 1957. (Image: Amazon)Books
    Book Review | Achievements in India's defence research despite many...

    The Defence Science Organisation was formed in 1956 for initiating studies and development of futuristic weapon systems

    1 Aug 2021 2:11 AM IST

    The novel brings out the paradox that the Tamil Tigers. (Photo: Goodreads)Books
    Book Review | War fiction, which resembles fact

    The story of induction into Sri Lanka and coping up with the fears of mines is narrated through conversations

    23 May 2021 11:27 AM IST

    Even the experimentation of biological weapons, which has been continuing under the policy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades, has resulted in a contamination of more than the world . Image: Pentagon PressBooks
    Book Review | Worst version of China to world

    Secondat has very well encapsulated a wide array of subjects, revealing much which is impactful for the Chinese public...

    25 April 2021 9:45 AM IST

    Codenamed Operation X, the untold story of Indias covert naval war in East Pakistan in 1971was put together in a book with the same title by Captain M.N.R. Samant, one of INs hardcore professionals and Sandeep Unnithan, the journalist son of a naval officer, and it turned out to read like an unputdownable thriller.Books
    Book Review | Navy's 1971 covert exploits make for breathless reading

    Conceived by a few hard core professional IN officers in 1971, Operation X was innovatively conceived and meticulously...

    14 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

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