Sushant Singh
@SushantSin
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Lecturer @Yale; Consulting Editor @theCaravanIndia; Columnist-Writer-Journalist | Past: Army, @IndianExpress, @CPR_India | Books: Mission Overseas; Note By Note
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Joined October 2013
If you go by hard evidence, the Modi government’s quest to someone depict normalcy in bilateral ties with China is a sign of weakness, as it is happening on Beijing’s terms. After 11 years of Modi as PM, he can’t blame anyone else for this major failure. I write @ttindia
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RT @ttindia: While the government clings to a domestic narrative of strength against China at the border, the ground realities are inconven….
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Where @HartoshSinghBal and I discuss the achievements of the only constant senior figure in Modi’s 11 years, Ajit Doval. His imprint on India’s internal security and foreign policy is unmistakable but an appraisal shows him in poor light. @thecaravanindia.
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“With borders compromised and leverage gone, New Delhi is now outmanoeuvred, dependent and unable to resist China’s supremacy in word or deed. This is not strength; it is submission.” .
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While the government clings to a domestic narrative of strength against China at the border, the ground realities are inconveniently stark. The Sino-India border is neither normal nor dispute-free
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Such statements are meaningless. Escalation is a two player game. The other side shot down IAF fighter jets, that too in Indian airspace, on the first night itself. And it eventually ended up with Brahmos striking Pakistan’s air bases from long ranges.
Operation Sindoor: India's actions were measured, non-escalatory, govt tells Parliament. #operationsindoor #parliament .
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Barely a few miles outside the national capital. If it was not for independent media, newspapers would only frame the issue as of a very dirty Gurgaon because workers have gone missing. Like farmers movement was framed as a problem of traffic jams.
Amidst nationwide crackdown against ‘suspected foreign’ nationals, 100s of Bangla speaking migrant workers detained in Gurugram in what police calls “holding centres.” I and @alishan_jafri report from the ground.
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RT @CommodoreBatra: ALERT:."The RTI Online portal may be temporarily inaccessible from outside India". 👆🏼Alert has been scrolling on RTI On….
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Essentially, it was not platform vs platform, as in the days of yore. It was a networked system which the PLA and PAF had exercised jointly in the past few years. That explains the IAF losses on the first night.
Meanwhile, . During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China . China has over the years hired ex-fighter pilots, Air Force operators from UK, Germany, Germany to train . First red flag was raised in 2022 .
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It seems that the Modi government is going to buy Su-57 from Russia for the IAF. If this is what had to be eventually done, why did the Modi govt pull out of the FGFA co-development project with Russia in 2018? At that time, the fascination with the US and France was at its peak.
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Please. If it was in IAF’s hands, it would have already happened 7-8 years ago. The decision is of the top political leadership which has to provide the money for buying these jets.
IAF looking to acquire 2-3 squadrons of fifth-generation fighter jets from foreign sources. Read @ANI Story | #IAF #IndianAirForce #FighterJets
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This was meant to be India’s own GPS. Paying for a seat on commercial spacecraft is great PR but the real strategic advantage accrues from this.
India's desi-GPS satellites known as #ISRO NAVIC are near-defunct. Of 11 satellites launched, only 4 are providing core PNT services. Of these 4, 1 has completed end of planned life, 1 has partial equipment failure. Govt admitted this in Parliament, & RTI by @SolidBoosters
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RT @thecaravanindia: In the aftermath of the crisis, Modi visited the Adampur airbase and declared that India had deflated “the bluff of nu….
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RT @detresfa_: China is nearing the completion of a military-linked complex on Pangong Lake's eastern edge, featuring garages, a highbay &….
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RT @netshrink: "The judge said that Hindu American Foundation (HAF) was being hypocritical in claiming that caste is not integral to Hindui….
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The US District Court for the Eastern District of California made the ruling on July 18 in response to an allegation by the Hindu American Foundation that had claimed that the California civil rights...
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As power differential inccreases between China and India, any resolution of the border issue will recent further from Beijing's agenda.
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Imagine. That too in a starkly unequal country like India.
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Doesn't reflect well on Civil Hospital Ahmedabad and the state forensic science laboratory of Gujarat.
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Any mention of Kanwar Yatra is hard to find in British documents, when the colonial rulers recorded every such practise.
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