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Reclaiming Gilgit-Baltistan, A Key Region Along the Emerging Asian Axis

by Shailendra Kumar6 January 202128 January 2021 4 min read

Quite simply if India doesn’t control Gilgit-Baltistan, someday, China will.

“We Should Always Aim to be Winners Because When We Win, The Nation Wins Too.”

by Gauri Noolkar-Oak21 October 20201 December 2020 3 min read

Lt Gen VG Khandare, the second Military Adviser to India’s National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) recently received a one-year extension in the current role. He works directly with the National Security Adviser (NSA).

Neighbourhood Politics South Asia & China

Does the US-Taliban Deal Brighten Afghanistan’s Future Prospects?

by Jacob Zucker21 August 202010 December 2020 5 min read

Two days ago, Afghanistan marked its 101st Independence Day. Over the course of this 24-hour window meant to feature celebrations and patriotic displays, 75 separate attacks ravaged 22 different provinces of the country.

India Politics

Will the Creation of CDS Reform India’s Defence Planning?

by Adithya Variath22 July 202010 December 2020 4 min read

The position of the CDS is coveted as well as complicated. The CDS, conventionally, is expected to be a ‘first among equals’, a five-star officer who will be senior to the three Service Chiefs.

India Society

“As a soldier, you deal with loneliness, and for me, that is where poetry kicks in.”

by Gauri Noolkar-Oak20 July 202010 December 2020 8 min read

Son of a Hindi professor and an officer in the Indian Army, he has the mind of an explorer and heart of a poet. Anonymous to everyone, he is exceedingly familiar to his readers through his moving, comforting verses. One quiet afternoon, he recounts his touching story to The Tilak Chronicle.