Pointing and thinking from out of the tank
India pulled off a surprise this week when it successfully tested a prototype anti-ballistic missile system.
States in India's neighbourhood are on the brink --- why so, and why India has become part of the scenery.
Deciphering China is tough (well, not for some). And we need a Chinese Mitrokhin.
Kashmiri separatists --- some who think ethnic cleansing can be explained away by youthful indiscretion, and some whose words are taken a little too seriously. Here's why the jihadis can't stop fighting. Reporting Pakistani duplicity in the war on terror is as dangerous as it was.
On the Sachar Committee's report --- less patronisation and more economic freedom will benefit Muslims (and, for that matter, everyone else)