Major General Mrinal Suman, AVSM, VSM, PhD
Source: http://www.indiandefencereview.com

History is most unforgiving. As historical mistakes cannot be undone, they have complex cascading effect on a nation’s future. Here is a saga of seven historical blunders that have changed the course of independent India’s history and cast a dark shadow over its future. These costly mistakes will continue to haunt India for generations. They have been recounted here in a chronological order with a view to highlight inadequacies of India’s decision making apparatus and leadership’s incompetence to act with vision.

Piteous call of the Hindu Nation

In the story of the third avatar of Mahavishnu as Bhagwan Varaha, Prithvi or Mother Earth is abducted by asura Hiranyaaksha, the brother of better known asura, Hiranyakashipu, Prahalada’s father. Hiranyaaksha holds Prithvi in captivity in Rasaatala, a region which must be understood as the very depths of the netherworld located somewhere in cosmos.

By Col. R. Hariharan
Source: http://www.southasiaanalysis.org

A comparison of nuclear capability of India and China cannot be made in isolation. It has to be derived in the backdrop of their strategic vision, global ambitions and political and social ethos that condition their perceptions. Their strategic vision dictates the development of their nuclear capability (including nuclear policy, concepts, weapons capability and delivery systems) appropriate to the geo-strategic environment.

Shreerang Godbole
8 July 2010

R.M.S. Morea
Launched in 1908, the Morea (164.53 m length, 18.65 m breadth and 7.53 m in depth) was considered the best-looking liner of her class. She had been fitted with the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy in 1909. As Savarkar was a prisoner, he was given a second class cabin and European clothes to wear. As Power was in charge of his security, he too had been given second class. Though Edward Parker of the Scotland Yard was entitled to a first class, he preferred to travel with Power by second class. Two deck passages had been assigned to the two native escorts. Thus, Savarkar, Power and Parker shared a central second class cabin.

China's hydro-engineering projects in Tibet indicate it is fashioning water as a card against India
Brahma Chellaney http://chellaney.spaces.live.com/blog
The Times of India, June 29, 2010

New evidence from China indicates that, as part of its planned diversion of the waters of the Brahmaputra, preparations are afoot to start work on the world’s biggest dam at the river’s so-called Great Bend, located at Tibet’s corner with northeastern India. The dam, by impounding water on a gargantuan scale, will generate, according to a latest map of planned dams put up on its Web site by the state-run Hydro China, 38,000 megawatts of power, or more than twice the capacity of the Three Gorges Dam. Such is its scale that this new dam will by itself produce the equivalent of 25 percent of India’s current electricity generation from all sources.