Ashish Shukla's Blog, page 8

March 1, 2019

Don’t forgive or forget this “Deep State” which echoes Pakistan

Pulwama, Surgical Strikes 2.0, Abhinandan, Kashmir Valley, JeM, Uri, Hafiz Saeed, Laskhar-e-Taiba, Nariman House, Hotel Taj, Oberoi, Trident, Chhatrapati Shivaji, Leopald Café, Cama Hospital, Samjhauta Express, Mahatma Gandhi, Aman ki Asha, Dr. Subramaniam Swamy, ISI, Dubai hawala, Balakot

Illustration: Courtesy Satish Acharya



India commanded attention from its citizens in the last two weeks.  In an uninterrupted stretch, Pulwama was followed by counter-attack on JeM in the Kashmir Valley, diplomatic and economic measure


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Published on March 01, 2019 23:43

February 28, 2019

Ground MiG-21s so no Abhinandan is put to risk

Abhinandan, MiG 21 bison, IAF, Kargill, Air Commodore SC Deo, Flt. Lt. Manu Akhouri, Rahul Tewari, Sandeep Singh, Falguni Laha Roy, MS Pillai, Arunabh Ghosh, Amit Sethi, JD Singh, HAL, AK Antony, Alexander Kadakin, F-16, Mirage 2000, Jaguar, Balalaika, Congress

Abhinandan (right) and outdated MiG 21 Bison



As Wing Commander Abhinandan rides an euphoria, let’s ground the MiG-21s (Mikoyan-Gurevich) which nearly cost his life and our country a near war.


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Published on February 28, 2019 23:27

February 25, 2019

Khajuraho, Islamic invaders and Mahatma Gandhi

Khajuraho, Chandela dynasty, UNESCO, Chattarpur, Vindhya mountains, Will Durant, Lost Worlds, Alex Evans, TS Burt, Islamic invaders, Abu Rihan-al-Biruni, Mahmud Ghazni, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak, Ibn Battuta, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore

Vandalized Khajuraho; author with his wife



It’s easy to describe Khajuraho temples in bare facts.


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Published on February 25, 2019 10:00

February 19, 2019

No Mr. Omar Abdullah, nation would back Tathagata Roy on Kashmir

Omar Abdullah, Tathagata Roy, Mehbooba Mufti, 35A Article, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Ghulab Nabi Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, Wazir Commission, Jammu, Ladakh, Kashmir Valley, Article 370, JKPSC, Rohingya Muslims, Satya Pal Malik, Farooq Abdullah, Dogras, Gujjar-Bakerwals, Pahari, Gojri

Omar and his jaundiced eye



I woke up today to Omar Abdullah’s twee


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Published on February 19, 2019 21:56

February 18, 2019

Fake narrative on Kashmiri students: A bid to replace nation’s anger with guilt

Kashmiri students, Pulwama attack, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Prashant Bhushan, Nidhi Sethi, Dehra Dun, CRPF, Uttarakhand Police, NDTV, Vinod Dua, Mamata Banerjee, Amit Shah, Narendra Modi,

Pulwama anger being replaced with guilt



The present theme in our sick English mainstream media is that Kashmiri students en masse are leaving for home out of fear in the wake of the Pulwama attack.


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Published on February 18, 2019 21:55

February 17, 2019

Article 370 must go: BJP can’t pussyfoot any longer

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BJP must take a stand on Article 370



There is no reason why Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in favour of Jammu and Kashmir must not go.


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Published on February 17, 2019 22:16

February 16, 2019

Pulwama Attack: Sadly, India can’t resort to “water war”

Pulwama, Indus Water Treaty, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ayub Khan, Jhelum, Chenab, Indus river, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, World Bank, China, Himalayan glaciers, European Alps, Mekong, Yangtze, Irawaddy, Tibetan Plateau, Euphrates river, Cauvery river, Islamic State, Baglihar, Kishanganga Hydroeletric project, International Court of Arbitration, Narendra Modi

Indus Water Treaty can't be abrogated



The dastardly Pulwama attack has again led to talks of India abrogating the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 and wage a “water war” against Pakistan to bring it to its knees, since diplomacy seems to hav


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Published on February 16, 2019 17:29

February 14, 2019

India key to ending West’s 500 years of domination

Bill Clinton, Warsaw Pact, Yeltsin, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Berlin Wall, Atal Behari Vajpayee, WTO, ABM Treaty, 9/11, Arab Spring, Pivot to Asia

India key to East's hegemony



With the end of the unipolar moment, which saw Washington dominate international relations, the richest and most powerful Eurasian countries are beginning to organize themselves into alliance s


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Published on February 14, 2019 20:11

February 13, 2019

Jharkhand takes lead in banning Islamic State-linked PFI

Jharkhand, Popular Front of India, PFI, Ramalingam, Thirubhuvanam, Manitha Neethi Pasarai, Nagarik Adhikar Suraksha Samiti, Rudresh, Prof. T.J. Joseph, Babri Masjid, SIMI, Islamic State, NIA, Vinay Kumar

PFI is accused of being linked to Islamic State



The Jharkhand government has slapped the radical Muslim outfit, the Popular Front of India (PFI) with a ban again this week for keeping links with Islamic State (IS) and being a threat to communal


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Published on February 13, 2019 20:52

February 12, 2019

Chandrababu Naidu and his dharnas are going nowhere

Chandrababu Naidu, TDP, Andhra Pradesh, TRS, Telangana Rashtriya Samithi, Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Tejaswi, Akhilesh, Sharad, Prajakutami bloc, K. Chandrashekhar Rao, Amravati, Nara Lokesh, Povalaram, Amit Shah, CBI, Hyderabad, Silicon Valley, Reddys, Kammas

Chandrababu Naidu and his dharna drama



It’s some wonder that Chandrababu Naidu, given his fallen stock, is still able to have a disparate group of regional chief ministers and party heads squat with him on dharnas in solidarity.


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Published on February 12, 2019 21:05