Fresh tapes of intercepted conversations of the lobbyist Niira Radia underline the key role she assigned to the media as an intermediary in achieving her business and political goals.

BY Saikat Datta 19 March 2018

Outlook magazine has unearthed 800 new tapped conversations involving the lobbyist Niira Radia in the 2G spectrum scam.

BY Debarshi Dasgupta 5 March 2016

Almost 24 years ago, two Indian naval officers were quietly sent off to the United States to attend a training course that few really knew much about. Since then it has been a tragedy of monumental neglect...

BY Saikat Datta 3 May 2011

Time our security establishment learnt from the systemic changes and reform that has been attempted by the US in the two decades between the disaster in Iran, the 9/11 attack and the subsequent war against terror in Afghanistan

BY Saikat Datta 1 May 2011

The humiliation of 1962, the Rubaiya Sayeed hostage crisis, the Al Faran kidnapping of foreign tourists, IC 814... or even the recent abduction of the district collector of Malkangiri in Orissa and a junior engineer by Maoists...

BY Saikat Datta 24 February 2011

What if I am a journalist covering the ministry of defence? What if an arms dealer (or lobbyist) becomes one of my “legitimate sources” for news?

BY Saikat Datta 23 November 2010

"Bomb Islamabad!" That's what a representative of the Samajwadi Party suggested at one of the UPA meetings. But are there serious options that one could look at as a credible response to these terror attacks?

BY Saikat Datta 30 November 2008

By mid-September, Indian agencies knew that the attack would come from the sea, by mid-November, they knew that the Taj hotel would be targeted... And yet... and yet... A blow by blow account of how the plan to attack Mumbai by sea was hatched and ex

BY Saikat Datta 28 November 2008

They came out from the sea, while the Indian security agencies remained very much there. If anyone needed a lesson on how to conduct special operations from the sea, they could take a leaf out of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai

BY Saikat Datta 26 November 2008

Every road has a story to tell, waiting to be heard by the traveller. The road to Azamgarh from Varanasi, just touching Munshi Premchand's village 'Lamhi,' has a story that is crying to be heard in our tryst with terror.

BY Saikat Datta 21 October 2008