The Galwan Valley face-off marks the end of Sino-Indian relations as we knew it. There can be no going back to the status quo after the recent provocations. But to defeat an enemy that is militarily and economically superior to us, requires a cool head and a coherent strategy. The age of total war is over, modern conflict requires a multifaceted understanding of the situation. Chinese belligerence must be reciprocated in kind, but only while keeping in mind our strategic interests.Continue Reading

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An accurate interpretation of the term ‘Hindavi Swarajya’ would be: Hindu Paramountcy… an assertion of the ascendance of Hindus in the lands of their ancestors, primacy of their civilisational ethos, religious values and cultural expressions to eradicate the corrupting and degrading influence and ignominious vassalage to Islamic rule. And there is not a single act in the career of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj that deviated from this vision.Continue Reading

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“Every precept which was enjoined by the doctors of other religions he [Akbar] treated as manifest and decisive, in contradistinction to this Religion of ours [Islam], all the doctrines of which he set down to be senseless, and of modern origin, and the founders of it as nothing but poor Arabs, a set of scoundrels and highway robbers, and the people of Islam as accursed.”Continue Reading