It is important to understand what Jaishankar didn't say, and where he was deceptive and disingenuous on his detailed statement on the China issue.

Modi has a “purana rishta” – an old relationship – with lies and untruths and that bears no repetition. Indian news television, or whatever passes off for it, is beyond redemption. It is rotting at the bottom of a bottomless pit.

The simple reason behind this is the Hindutva politics – of discrimination, humiliation and subjugation of religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians from the territories that fall under their conception of Akhand Bharat.

It is no surprise then that for the ICC, peace and brotherhood is too much to ask for. That’s not cricket. Neither is it humanity.

Only a return to the status quo of May 2020 means resolution. Disengagement certainly isn’t.

In no other modern civilised society have so many men been publicly lynched as have been in India.

Anuradha Bhasin’s new book, 'A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370', goes deep into the saga of a people betrayed and promises broken.

The way they have brought out the heavy artillery to keep Zubair behind bars tells us something ― that for this regime and its supporting ecosystem, he really matters.

The stint in the National Security Council Secretariat ought to have prepared him for the politico-bureaucratic level of the national security set up in the current regime. That, however, will not take away from the challenges he will face.

The current Indian government wants to do everything that is abhorrent to the Western world but doesn’t have the courage to publicly accept its deeds on the ground.

To focus on Ganguly or Kohli is to miss the larger point about today’s BCCI and its relationship with power politics.

India benefited from the post-9/11 world in many ways, but it also consolidated a more damaging distortion to the psyche of the Indian society that continues to shape the country we live in.

It must be remembered that at no place in eastern Ladakh has the status quo ante prior to May 2020 been restored.

That the Centre's plans had spectacularly failed was clear last year as militancy continued unabated, there was no progress on attracting business investments and major Kashmiri parties performed better in the DDC elections than the BJP's allies.

The soldiers and veterans are being deprived of medical facilities at military establishments because healthcare professionals of the armed forces have been moved to what are being branded as 'DRDO hospitals.'

The scale of Chinese control in this strategically significant corner of Ladakh makes it the largest chunk of territory denied to Indian soldiers in a single swoop since the 1962 war, a fact that warranted inclusion in the defence minister's speech.