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The way Jammu and Kashmir has been suffering for over past six decades makes one think if there is really a curse on this 'Paradise on Earth'. J&K's economy is centred on horticulture, handicrafts and tourism. But corruption and misrule have spoilt the atmosphere so much that the people feel perpetually alienated from their government. This book presents a ring-side view of the reality of Kashmiri politicians, bureaucrats and the public as never seen before. ...
Success of the government depends on the dedication and satisfactory functioning of the bureaucracy since a bureaucrat is the representative of the government. Dr Yogendra Narain (retd IAS) focusses on functioning of the government and on certain issues of national importance and gives his own views on how those issues should be resolved. He served for 40 years holding key positions in the Government of India - District Magistrate to Defence Secretary - and after ...
Since ancient times, many strategies and tactics have been used by every class of men to fight foreign invaders and oppressors. These fighting strategies and tactics, later on called guerrilla warfare, had their points of difference at different times, their peculiar characteristics, their different processes and results and ultimately the priceless experience gained during several hundred wars. In a way, guerrilla warfare, is an inevitable form of struggle at a ...
The Nagas, an ethnic group (Indo-Mongoloid) consisting of various tribes and sub-tribes, inhabiting the landmass which is at the tri-junction of India, Tibet and Myanmar (Burma), had been at the loggerheads with the Government of India for a separate homeland since the day of Independence of India in 1947. The demand of handful of dissidents turned into a mass agitation and later it became the mother of all insurgency movements especially in the North-Eastern ...
Betrayal of North East, The Arrested Voice” depicts the extraordinary story of an IPS officer who was jailed under the National Security Act on fabricated charges and dismissed from service. Hiranya Kr Bhattacharyya invited the ire of the government for being vocal against certain government policies, especially its weird reluctance to check illegal immigration from Bangladesh which has destablised the region with far-reachings implications for national ...
Naxalism is the biggest challenge to the internal security of India. The government had been fighting a pitched battle with various groups of Naxalites for more than four decades but the problem has not been solved. It is a fact that the police in various States, is trying their best to tackle Naxalite violence. Paramilitary forces have been deputed in large numbers by the Central Government in the Naxalaffected States to prevent violence perpetrated by the ...
The military leadership technique of handling human resource is unique in certain ways; the factors which have direct bearing on the uniqueness are the uncertainty and fluidity in combat situations, constantly changing functional environment and frequent changes in human behaviour under combat stress, it is a challenge to the leadership under such circumstances. The book covers the mandatory aspect of military leadership challenges and ways to handle the related ...
With the advent of the guided missile and its sophisticated warheads, both tactical and strategic, the mere threat of deploying advanced technologies in weapon systems has, in the present times, increasingly acted as a substitutefor war-fighting. However, even now, military technology related social science issues constitute a small fraction of the writings by Indian analysts, engaged in national and international security studies (ISS). This book - by a former ...
The mainstream political parties, having set the stage for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that looked like London redemption to Nepalis, earned their laurel as champions of consensual politics. Consensus amongst the leaders forced the king to return the usurped power to the people restoring the dissolved parliament. Later, it declared the country a Republic ending the 238 years old monarchy. The CA-1 election was held to fulfill the long cherished desire of ...