no refund policy in irctc after chart is prepared and in retiring room for same day cancellation is disgusting. Thats the reason ppl dont cancel it despite their program is changed in 11th hour @IRCTCofficial
@CommanMan777589 In indus water treaty too, India had financed the construction of canals , dams and other infrastructures in Pakistan and they in turn veto any construction or even flushing in our side. Enabling and appeasement of Pakistan continues
Thank god, he was not considered for CDS else operation Sindoor would have bizarre by asking let RM tell whether to use drone or use Army instead every half an hour, fit to be follower and less as a leader/ General. Immaturity in leadership as well as in writing skills as thinker
I have publicly urged the Indian government to clear former Army chief M.M. Naravane’s manuscript so that his memoir can finally be released. That appeal stands. Yet I remain genuinely puzzled by the political controversy surrounding a particular passage in the unreleased book — one that recounts Chinese tanks advancing toward Indian positions at Rechin La on the Kailash Heights in August 2020.
According to Naravane’s own account, the Chinese advance prompted him to seek urgent guidance from the defense minister and the national security adviser. The political leadership, he writes, authorized him to respond as he judged appropriate — conveying the direction, “Jo uchit samjho, woh karo” (“Do what you think is fit”). Despite this delegation of authority granting him carte blanche, Naravane presents the episode as an abdication of responsibility by the government, arguing that the political leadership should have specified the precise response he was to undertake.
That claim deserves closer scrutiny, not least because it sits uneasily with Naravane’s own record during the border crisis with China.
The serial Chinese encroachments across multiple points in eastern Ladakh during April-May 2020 occurred on Naravane’s watch as Army chief. These were not minor incursions but coordinated intrusions that fundamentally altered the military status quo along the Line of Actual Control. Yet no senior Army officer was publicly held accountable for what was a grave lapse, one that has left India facing a structurally adverse and enduring security situation in eastern Ladakh.
Equally consequential was Naravane’s public messaging once the encroachments came to light. From early May 2020 onward, he repeatedly downplayed the scope and intent of Chinese actions. On May 14, 2020, he attributed troop clashes around several encroached areas to “aggressive behavior by both sides,” creating a false equivalence between the aggressor and Indian forces.
He further described the confrontations and clashes in Ladakh and Sikkim as arising from “differing perceptions” of the alignment of the LAC, effectively portraying deliberate territorial advances as cartographic misunderstandings. At another point, he asserted that these incidents were “neither co-related nor do they have any connection with other global or local activities,” implicitly severing them from the broader pattern of Chinese coercive behavior unfolding at the time. (Such statements of Naravane have been quoted by me in this essay published in mid-2020: https://t.co/wLHvkzk2YW.)
Such statements mattered. They did not merely reflect diplomatic caution; they publicly diluted the clarity of India’s position at a moment of acute military crisis. The clashes in Ladakh and Sikkim were, in fact, clearly related — part of a coordinated Chinese push to alter facts on the ground under cover of ambiguity, consistent with Beijing’s wider approach to territorial revisionism under Xi Jinping.
The costs of this messaging became starkly apparent in mid-June. On June 13, 2020, Naravane publicly declared that “the entire situation along our borders with China is under control.” https://t.co/IE54IYgNlT
Two days later, Indian troops were ambushed and killed by PLA forces in the Galwan Valley, triggering bloody clashes there and shattering the public narrative of stability, besides exposing the extent to which the crisis had been mischaracterized.
It is against this backdrop that Naravane’s account of the Rechin La episode must be assessed. Having repeatedly minimized Chinese aggression and eschewed accountability within the Army’s senior ranks, he now suggests that the political leadership erred by granting him operational discretion rather than prescribing a specific military response to a fast-moving tactical situation.
This is an odd contention. Civilian control of the military does not entail political micro-management of battlefield decisions. On the contrary, professional armed forces are entrusted with operational judgment precisely so that political leaders are not required to dictate tactical responses in real time. Delegation of authority in moments of crisis is not a failure of leadership; it is a recognition of the military’s professional domain.
Naravane’s complaint thus raises a more fundamental question than the one he appears to intend. Does an Army chief require explicit political instructions on how to counter localized enemy aggression on the ground? Or is the exercise of professional military judgment — within clearly articulated political objectives — the very essence of command?
That question, rather than the selective controversy surrounding a memoir, is what deserves serious public debate.
@kuldeepmishra@JaipurDialogues गूगल पढ़ना बंद करिए। दुर्गा सप्तशती में ईश्वरी पार्वती माता हैं। बाकी सब समझदार हैं। सभी को आजकल hino ( hindu in name only) कहते हैं शायद।
@Amockx2022 Inse hi RTI me saare certificate maang lena chahiye. Got Stephen's on sports quota and considering his untutored IQ is of 8 yr old child #fixedmatch_interviews
@AdityaRajKaul Time has come to review mandatory CSR to stop funding jehadi NGOs. New Income tax regime has somehow controlled individual donation through 80G @bjp4india@PMOIndia
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All are in judicial custody directly in control of courts. SC can give directions to release all undertrails who have exceeded their probable sentence., but bail is rule and custody is exception for powerful & rich.Judges select judges, nepotism flourish and rot continues.
"भारत की जेलों में बंद 70% से अधिक कैदी अब तक दोषी साबित नहीं हुए हैं, फिर भी वे जेल में हैं"
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@MattooShashank US was never a friend. Indira was forced to wait to meet US president. Pakistan was member of Seato and cento , NATO equivalent since 1955. This fellow either doesn't know or purposely telling lies to cater agenda of Soros gang ,etc. Now one change - Bharat doesn't obey some
@MattooShashank RR was most incompetent RBI governor india ever had. Trying to impress Raga to become second MMS . Prepared so-called nyaya Yojana which wasn't implemented in Karnataka or Himachal too.
If Russian oil was cheaper and we continued buying the same, why didn’t consumers see a single rupee of relief through rate cuts?
So, who really benefited?
If GST on Insurance comes to 0, will the benefits be passed to consumer?
@Chellaney Dear chellaney, shift is only tactical and not strategic. This reading is not expected from you considering your long term thinking and understanding unless ..