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DAVID DEVADAS

All stories by DAVID DEVADAS

What I Saw When The Kashmiri Pandits Fled in 1990
Rediff.com25 Mar 2022

Threats were often communicated to Pandit homes through notes tied to stones chucked...

Elections Should Have Been Held In March
Rediff.com12 Jan 2022

Making citizens queue to vote just when the disease is declining, but is still in the...

Make no mistake, we're heading into war
Rediff.com22 Oct 2021

The days of a thousand cuts are over. These mini wars will remain under the threshold...

Why Was Kashmir Calm After Geelani's Death?
Rediff.com6 Sep 2021

Squashing erstwhile 'separatists', marginalising the 'mainstream', and squeezing...

Cement and Tin Tell Stories of What's Up in Kashmir
Rediff.com4 Aug 2021

The transformative improvement promised in Jammu-Kashmir remains largely a mirage,...

Why the Army Needs the IAF!
Rediff.com6 Jul 2021

In the early part of the Kargil operations, the army opted to more or less go it alone,...

Coming Up: Women Power in J&K
Rediff.com31 Dec 2020

Women will have a decisive say as chairpersons in seven of Jammu and Kashmir's 20...

What J&K poll results means for BJP/NC/PDP
Rediff.com25 Dec 2020

What the election demonstrated is that the BJP has a stranglehold on most of the Hindu...

How India can win future wars
Rediff.com30 Oct 2020

Future, even present, wars -- at least those involving such tech giants as China --...

Will India face a China-Pakistan war in November?
Rediff.com17 Oct 2020

The Indian Army's Northern Command would be stretched if all three of the corps under...

J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha gets down to business
Rediff.com12 Aug 2020

Some of the BJP panches and councillors who attended the meeting with Manoj Sinha said...

Why Modi chose Manoj Sinha as J-K lieutenant governor
Rediff.com8 Aug 2020

'Sinha's skills at resolving contradictions will be required to smoothen the...

How the army taught the Chinese a lesson
Rediff.com28 Jul 2020

The Chinese probably thought that brutal assault was a knock-out, but they had not...

Something bigger is afoot than just shifting the LAC a couple of km in Ladakh
Rediff.com27 Jun 2020

The government must figure out what the Chinese game plan is and thwart the endgame...

How Bihar Regiment's bravery at Galwan stunned China
Rediff.com18 Jun 2020

A senior officer confirmed that the Indian soldiers fought valiantly and with...

The general defending Ladakh against the Chinese
Rediff.com8 Jun 2020

Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, who commands the 'Fire and Fury' 14 Corps, has the...

250 days after 5/8, tense summer ahead for Kashmir
Rediff.com11 Apr 2020

'Terrorists are killing ordinary citizens, huge crowds brave a pandemic to attend...

AAP's use of Hindu symbolism is a sign of the times
Rediff.com14 Feb 2020

As the campaign peaked, AAP leaders evidently realised they had to deflect their chief...

Many questions about rogue cop Davinder Singh
Rediff.com29 Jan 2020

Why did RA&W hire a man with a questionable record, wonders David Devadas.

Communication blockade strikes at the heart of Kashmiri life
Rediff.com3 Sep 2019

'Those who have not lived and imbibed the social and cultural patterns of Kashmir...