India-Pak ceasefire: Need to stick to red lines
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them friends-(Ibrahim Lincoln)
The guns blazing across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, since the terrorist attack on a military camp in the border town of Uri in 2016 were suddenly silenced on the intervening night of February 25. While this ceasefire is holding and it was now expected that it will graduate towards further movements, the latest U-turn by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on resumption of trade brought to the fore that a sustainable peace process was still far away.
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Two Towers of the Indian Right Review - Jugalbandi by Vinay Sitapati
Vinay Sitapati’s book presents a fascinating account of the journey of the two tallest and major drivers of the ‘Indian Right Wing’, who remained at the helm to navigate it through testing times, beginning with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and later managing and executing the affairs of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party.
The book offers a larger ambit to study the rise of Lal Krishna Advani and Atal Behari Vajpayee, and an analytical chronology of all the organisations cemented upon the idea of uniting Hindus, namely the Hindu Mahasabha (1915), the RSS (1925), the Jan Sangh (1951), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (1964), the BJP (1980) and Bajrang Dal (1984) and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (1991).
‘Of Course, We Will Fight Assembly Elections’
that his party and president are the chief targets of the ongoing “onslaught”
Under Dad’s Shadow: Dr Mehbooba Baig poses with the portrait of his father, Mirza Afzal Baig. KL Image: Yawar Hussain
KASHMIR LIFE (KL):
Is PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) still relevant to Jammu and Kashmir?
MEHBOOB BAIG (MB): Definitely. PDP is relevant to Jammu and Kashmir and more particularly after what happened post-August 5, 2019. It is the only party that gives expression to the voices of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
KL:
But from 28 assembly berths in 2014, you have come down to just 27 DDC berths out of 280. How are you relevant?
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The lesson from the China-India military stand-off is “profound” and it should not be repeated, Beijing’s envoy to New Delhi Sun Weidong said, even as the two sides could not yet reach an agreement for the complete withdrawal of front-line troops from all the face-off points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
However, he argued that the boundary row was “not the whole story of China-India relations”.
China’s ambassador to India recently had a virtual discussion with eminent columnist Sudheendra Kulkarni, who had served as an aide to late and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and had accompanied him on his visit to the communist country in 2003.
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