24/04/2016
In my latest column in EPW I have talked about the mindset that pervades our strategic thought. The Indian elite's obsession with power and their belief that the easiest way to power is by doing White'man's dirty work.
The issue is do we define our role or is it being defined by someone else? The issue is between Power and Freedom. Our strategy never seeks freedom, it continues to get more and more entangled in the imperialist power game that makes us lose again and again. Our elite inks that by doing white man's dirty work is the easiest way to powerdom. Please read....
As India is all set to ink the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement with the United States, it must revisit its history while formulating the current policy of military-to-military ties with the US. India's strategy must address the issue of freedom from Western thought and question imperial a…