The recently announced Canada-India uranium deal close to $2.8 billion including Cameco’s shipment of uranium over 10 years has also caused dire non-proliferation and regional-stability protests. The foreign minister and the nuclear industry of Canada have been highly excited about the deal. However, the past experience of India makes one think that caution should be…
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot presents a coherently robust claim about the transformational nature of the political project of Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party to change the nature of Indian politics by re-interpreting decades of Hindutva sentiment into a political programme. According to the author,…
Recently the Indian Air Force chief made a bold statement that “India shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during clashes in May”. However, official accounts of Operation Sindoor never mentioned any Pakistani aircraft shot down. Government press briefings (May 10) did not refer to aerial kills or wreckage. For example,…
