K.P.S. Gill

A personal memoir that lays bare the inside of India's intelligence machine

A worthy premise, but a tad unrealistic in the grim realities of the present

The general would have been better served by a professional biographer.

The proxy war and terrorism are more real dangers to India than the assumed threat of open war with Pakistan, says K.P.S. Gill

All talk of a 'soft state' is a pathetic bid to absolve leaders and transfer guilt to the nation at large.

The Supreme Court’s order defining guidelines for encounter fatalities has been a long time coming

Nearly six years after the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, despite a flurry of erratic and uncoordinated initiatives, India's vulnerabilities to terrorism remain unchanged

Above all, the corrupt politics of vote banks and crass electoral calculi, to the manifest detriment of the national interest, must be defeated.

'I condemn in the strongest terms possible the crude demonstrations against the Prime Minister at the Golden Temple by Anna Hazare’s supporters'

The endless and ill-informed debates on legal vs. developmental vs. political vs. negotiated vs. policing vs. military responses are fruitless. This entire spectrum – from use of extreme force to negotiations and conciliation – is comprehended within

The Muslims do not have to, and should never be asked to, prove their loyalty and good faith any more than any other citizen of India. It is a communal trap that feeds the community's sense of siege, marginalisation and alienation. What we are experi

Unless India and USA join hands to exert inexorable pressure on Islamabad to reverse the direction of its present free fall into terrorist adventurism and anarchy, the world will confront an augmenting -- and potentially catastrophic -- threat of ter

While separatists and Pakistani proxies have great reason to celebrate the ongoing disorders in the state, political formations and leaders committed to the national cause need urgently to pause and introspect on the consequences of the current cours

When we send men into conflict situations, there is an inevitable risk of loss of life. This should not discourage us, but should, in fact, make us all the more determined to help a friendly nation and its people out of their present distress.

The reality is, there is no such thing as Islamist fundamentalist terrorism. To understand the position correctly, we need to recognize that there is only ISI terror that has been dubbed as 'Islamist terror'.