India’s defence budget raises telling questions about the government’s commitment to strengthen national security.
There’s rhetoric and then there is reality. In no other sphere of governance has the difference between the two been more visible in the past decade than India’s national security. Elections have been won by citing the valour and sacrifice of soldiers, and the narrative of the bold use of the military has been sold to sway the voters. But the reality is visible on the ground.
Since 2020, China has moved into territories controlled by India on the Line of Actual Control and stopped Indian soldiers from accessing 26 of the 65 patrolling points on the Ladakh border. Bhutan …
Sushant Singh is a lecturer at Yale University. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and deputy editor of The Indian Express. A winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, he had earlier served in the Indian Army for two decades. He is also the author of Mission Overseas and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story.
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