Indian Opinion

Mukesh Devrari Happymon Jacob’s new book ‘The line of control: Travelling with Indian and Pakistani Armies’ is an interesting story of his personal journey as a researcher. Although his another book titled ‘Line on Fire: Ceasefire Violations and India-Pakistan Escalation Dynamics’ has become a talk of the town because of his sensational revelation that 9/11 derailed Indian Army’s plan to capture Pakistani posts along LoC to end infiltration for once and all.   His less controversial book ‘The line of control: Travelling with Indian and Pakistani Armies’ tells the story of a man and his personal journey to study two rivals of South Asia and their conflicts. In this case, Professor Happymon Jacob has come a long way since the day he was advised by Hamid Ansari how to be a good repertoire. He has successfully entered the club of individuals who are out of power but continue to play a role in influencing opinion through negotiations and discussions with their counterparts...

Mukesh Devrari Decolonization is a continuous process. We might have succeeded in throwing the British government out of this country seventy-five years ago, but as a nation, we failed in throwing out the British influence out of this country. The word British symbolizes the entire western world. It was not a single nation state. It was a manifestation of the European idea of supremacy over other beings. We achieved our political freedom. With it, by default we attained our economic freedom to some extent and utilized it for a few decades to advance our national interests. However, economics is no longer exists within a nation state alone, it exists in must bigger and connected global structure. Third is cultural freedom. India did not utilize its cultural freedom to ouster alien cultures out of this country, not in the sense of complete decimation, but in the sense of diluting western cultural hold on our society. Political Decolonization India is a success story. It i...