Lieutenant General ASHOK JOSHI (Retd), Colonel ANIL ATHALE (Retd)

All stories by Lieutenant General ASHOK JOSHI (Retd), Colonel ANIL ATHALE (Retd)

South Asia: It Is Climate Change, Stupid
Rediff.com21 Sep 2024

India should encourage the second coming of SAARC with climate change as an urgent...

Should Women Fight Wars?
Rediff.com23 Sep 2021

Should we be exposing our women volunteers to the barbarity of actual combat?

Be Prepared for Taliban Terror
Rediff.com1 Sep 2021

Pakistan would want to take full advantage of the situation to direct Taliban trained...

What led the British to Leave India?
Rediff.com14 Aug 2021

Attlee said Great Britain had concluded that the Indian element of the army was no...

China and Xi want India to fail
Rediff.com1 Oct 2020

By jettisoning the vision of multilateral world in favour of a Han Empire, China has...

Coronavirus: Immediate Need: National Government
Rediff.com26 Mar 2020

'A national government will help us to harness the totality of national resources to...

2019 is India's Deng Xiaoping moment
Rediff.com19 Jun 2019

'The return of India to its own civilisational values can never endanger freedoms as...

Defence of India with Made in India
Rediff.com23 Jan 2019

'No country can ever be free to make its choices and remain independent if it continues...

Courting trouble on the Rafale
Rediff.com15 Nov 2018

The strategic illiteracy on display in the arguments put forth on the Rafale deal...

How to bring about regime change in Pakistan
Rediff.com29 Sep 2016

'In order to achieve Pakistan's psychological isolation and pariah status, breaking all...

Secured in Dhaka, but squandered in Shimla
Rediff.com2 Jul 2016

'Indira Gandhi, it appears, did not to consult her Cabinet colleagues, or diplomats, or...

Pakistan's crackdown on radicals is a ray of hope
Rediff.com7 Mar 2016

'If the bulk of the Pakistan population and the all powerful army are now against...

50 Years On: Who was the real Veer Savarkar?
Rediff.com26 Feb 2016

'One hopes the younger generation sees Savarkar him for what he was and does not view...

How India can prevent another act of terror
Rediff.com4 Jan 2016

'India has already suffered in the raid of January 2, and taken punishment. If...

Hopefully, some Pak general is not planning another Kargil
Rediff.com30 Dec 2015

'Checkmating India by its nukes, Pakistan can pursue terrorism against India in the...

Truly, an outstanding soldier
Rediff.com14 Apr 2015

'He was unlike anyone else I had met until then or ever since.' Lt Gen Ashok Joshi...

Pakistan and its seven states of delusion
Rediff.com27 Feb 2015

'Pakistan is full of 'religious entrepreneurs' like Hafeez Saeed who poison the minds...

Pakistan's rulers can deceive anyone and everyone
Rediff.com26 Feb 2015

'For so long as the rulers of Pakistan remain committed to confronting and vanquishing...

Indian parents must warn their children against ISIS
Rediff.com23 Sep 2014

'Parents would do well by the nation if they were to persuade their sons and daughters...

Delhi gang-rape: Time to instil the fear of law
Rediff.com9 Jan 2013

It is the 'tolerance' of eve teasing and harassment of women that is the start point of...