When it takes a disaster(s) to accentuate fundamental mistakes in a society, you know where are we heading as a society and a nation.
Apart from the grave political and administrative problems, we have an alarming civilizational problem of ignorance.
#DU#SatyaNiketan
“We can’t stand in queues like the general public,” say our elected representatives. Yet it is that very public that stands in line to vote them into power, pays for the system they enjoy, and is now being told that equality ends where privilege begins. Sad is this justice! Do you agree with me?
Trump’s Call to Modi Was Damage Control
Strip away the diplomatic niceties and the picture is clear: Donald Trump’s call to Narendra Modi was not routine consultation, but pure damage control.
By routing through Pakistan his 15-point “peace” plan to end the war that he started against Iran, Trump has made that country’s army chief an indispensable intermediary. Field Marshal Asim Munir’s emergence as Washington’s channel to Tehran not only underscores Pakistan’s geopolitical relevance to Washington, but also fits with Trump’s earlier description of Munir as his “favorite field marshal.”
For New Delhi, the optics are galling.
India bears the brunt of the economic fallout from a war launched by its two principal strategic partners, the U.S. and Israel. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively disrupted and Indian shipments exposed to risk, New Delhi is both stakeholder and victim.
Yet, in a stark inversion of roles, it is not India but Pakistan (which has long used its nuclear-weapons shield to export terrorism) that is Washington’s diplomatic conduit.
This explains Trump’s phone call. The language of keeping India “in the loop” is just reassurance — a way to soften the blow, not change the reality.
Because the reality is this: When it mattered, Trump chose Pakistan as the conduit, and is now trying to make sure Modi doesn’t take it personally.
This is just the latest occasion when Trump has sought to undermine his “very good friend” Modi.
Now, the superpower 🇺🇸(in decline) has felt how hard it is to even fight against a quasi-nuclear state 🇮🇷.
And 🇺🇸 armed forces must have realised what sort of calibre & tactics 🇮🇳 forces possess which clinically paralyzed a nuclear state 🇵🇰. (Where's that ✈️ rhetoric)
#IranWar
Saw news of J&K people donating money, jewellery n all (one of my DU profs donated a huge sum) to Iran.
Didn't see such an instance of public donation for Indian Army.
Demography change is the deadliest weapon to conquer any land. Sometimes the RIGHT wing sounds right.#IranWar
Wanna feel silence?
Feel it when a muslim country attacks the innocent civilians of another muslim country.
#pakafghan#PakistanAirStrike
And one sec....
Are these selective humanists ☪️ even acquainted with Myanmar military junta carrying out genocide?
Proxy War Reaches India’s Northeast: The arrest of six Ukrainians and one American by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly “importing huge consignments of drones from Europe” for armed ethnic organizations in Myanmar is casting an unflattering spotlight on Washington’s regional strategy. The U.S. continues to back a military-linked government in Pakistan while, in military-ruled Myanmar, it is seeking regime change by aiding rebel groups — an approach that is increasingly blurring into proxy warfare with destabilizing regional consequences, especially for Indian border states like Manipur and Mizoram.
According to the NIA, the militant groups in Myanmar that the accused mercenaries were assisting have arms and training links with insurgent organizations in India’s northeast.
The seven men entered India’s remote Mizoram state without the permits required under Indian law before crossing the porous border into Myanmar with drones and other supplies. They were arrested after their return to India.
Myanmar’s internal conflict — fueled by external powers located far from the region — is spilling across borders. Myanmar’s deepening instability is already leading to an influx of refugees and militants into Indian states like Manipur and Mizoram, complicating India’s internal-security challenges.
In submissions before a New Delhi court, the NIA stated that the actions of the accused mercenaries posed a direct threat to India’s national security, invoking Section 18 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), which pertains to conspiracy to commit terrorist acts.
The most prominent among those arrested is the American, Matthew Aaron Van Dyke, who has previously participated in armed conflicts in Libya and Syria, where the rulers were toppled with external assistance. The NIA alleges that he was leveraging that combat experience to train Myanmar-based insurgents in drone warfare, including assembly and jamming techniques.
Taken together, the arrests point to a more troubling reality: India’s sensitive northeast is no longer merely adjacent to the Myanmar conflict; it risks becoming an operational corridor. For New Delhi, this is no longer a distant instability but a direct security challenge.
The Nagging Question: Did Shared Intelligence Sink the Iranian Frigate? Under the military pacts COMCASA and LEMOA, India and the U.S. share sensitive maritime data. If a U.S. attack submarine used shared data to locate and sink an Iranian frigate that had just departed an Indian port after participating in a multilateral naval exercise, it would represent a foundational breach of the defense partnership.
A Moudge-class frigate such as the IRIS Dena, even if fully armed, would be no match for a U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarine operating in India’s maritime backyard. But the circumstances matter. If the Dena carried little or no munitions — as the “peace protocol” of India’s MILAN-2026 exercise requires — the strike looks less like combat than a premeditated execution.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has emphasized that the Dena was a “guest of the Indian Navy” and was struck “without warning” while in a non-combat posture.
Such a claim is not implausible. In multilateral naval exercises focused on camaraderie and collaboration, visiting warships typically do not carry a full combat load of live munitions, unless required for a scheduled live-fire drill.
During MILAN exercise’s harbor phase in Visakhapatnam, participating ships are required to remain in a “safe” configuration. That phase includes public tours, diplomatic events and a fleet review, all of which require strict safety protocols. Even during the sea phase, where operational drills and live-fire events occur, the ammunition carried is tightly controlled and limited to what is required for specific drills.
If the Dena left the exercise area in such a restricted configuration, the imbalance between target and attacker becomes stark: a lightly armed — or possibly unarmed — guest ship departing a cooperative exercise, tracked and destroyed by the world’s most sophisticated undersea warfare platform.
The war on Iran has little to do with nuclear or missile proliferation or state-sponsored terrorism. If those were the real concerns, the more obvious U.S. target would be Pakistan: a declared nuclear-armed state with an estimated 170+ warheads; a country that U.S. intelligence assesses is developing intercontinental-range ballistic missile capabilities that could reach the United States; and one whose state-backed terror networks have been linked to major transnational terrorist attacks, including in the West. The principal architects of 9/11 were ultimately found in Pakistan, among them Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Iran, by contrast, remains a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and, although it enriched uranium up to 60% (just below the 90% weapons-grade level), is still widely assessed to be far away from building a functional nuclear weapon. Yet Washington has chosen to wage war on Tehran while effectively mollycoddling Pakistan — justifying its actions with claims that Iran poses an existential threat to the U.S.
The logic of this war is therefore geopolitical, not defensive. It is about reshaping the regional balance of power, installing a pliable regime in Tehran, and weakening Iran’s network of regional influence. Control over the Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly a fifth of the world’s traded oil passes — and the broader project of rolling back Iran’s strategic reach are integral to this regime-change agenda.
Our subcontinental people r the most sentimental piece of sh*t 💩.
A hardliner who killed 32000 protesters of his own country with absolute barbarism a few months ago is being mourned in our country. Subcontinental optics of any external evnt always reminds me about this sickness
Just beyond credence!
One of the most successful rockets in the world, in fact the most successful one gets back to back failures (C 61 & 62) and that too when launching spy satellites. Just a coincidence❓
Sheer negligence ! #ISRO#NationalSecurity#PSLV
At some point , you will have to admit that Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky was correct to a great extent. (connection between biological behaviour on Earth and Solar Activity) आसान भाषा में, जब सूर्य के वातावरण में भारी हलचल होती है तब धरती पर युद्ध ,विद्रोह आदि होता है।
Yesss lasses! Vintage Russian charm is replaceable, all we(boys) need is this Indian 5th Gen baddie. ✈️🚀
(Jokes aside, a robust anti-sabotage intel shielding to this hi-tech program is a must !)
#AMCA#ADA#DRDO#HAL#IITK