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Vivek Gumaste

Academic Vivek Gumaste, who is based in the United States, is the author of My India: Musings of a Patriot. You can e-mail the author at gumastev@yahoo.com

All stories by Vivek Gumaste

Speed Up Peace Process In Nagaland
Rediff.com13 Dec 2021

Exploiting the killings to ratchet up the tension in the region and harden negotiating...

India Must Be Prepared for the Taliban
Rediff.com10 Aug 2021

Robust military preparedness along the entire perimeter of our nation is the only...

Talking to Taliban is Pointless for India
Rediff.com4 Aug 2021

Pakistan has too much at stake to allow even an iota of rapprochement between India and...

Pakistan must never again feature in J-K talks
Rediff.com1 Jul 2021

Pakistan must be deleted once and for all from the vocabulary of Kashmir-related...

Blame game at this juncture is suicidal
Rediff.com12 May 2021

To build one's political and ideological arguments on the dead bodies piling up outside...

There are Wazes in every police force
Rediff.com13 Apr 2021

'What this incident must do is provide a renewed impetus to urgently bring in police...

Farmers must call off chakka jam in the national interest
Rediff.com5 Feb 2021

The government and the farmers must come back to the negotiating table with only the...

Narendra Modi is not Donald Trump
Rediff.com21 Jan 2021

The danger to India's democracy is coming from recourse to mobocracy encouraged by the...

Farmers must climb down
Rediff.com11 Dec 2020

The government's predicament is a result of its own doing: That of not ensuring...

India needn't match China bullet for bullet
Rediff.com16 Oct 2020

All that India must aim for is to match China's military prowess adjusted to equal...

India can never trust the Chinese again!
Rediff.com14 Oct 2020

'Magnanimity and appeasement have no place in the world of realpolitik as India has...

View: CBI must not appeal Babri verdict
Rediff.com7 Oct 2020

Challenging the verdict is a deterrent to future peace and harmony and a socially...

Was Babri Masjid demolition justified?
Rediff.com4 Aug 2020

'The outrage that followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid was an inability to see...

Speak in one voice in times of external threat
Rediff.com26 Jun 2020

'It is nobody's contention that uncomfortable questions regarding national security...

India must be militarily prepared for the worst
Rediff.com5 Jun 2020

'One must remember that a dragon has a forked tongue,' warns Vivek Gumaste.

India is a moral giant; no one can damage its image
Rediff.com16 May 2020

'India's reputation is not and cannot be dependent on the whimsical opinions of some...

India must enforce social distancing strictly
Rediff.com25 Mar 2020

'India does not have the wherewithal to successfully manage a full blown covid-19...

Sinister agenda behind anti-CAA-NRC protests?
Rediff.com21 Feb 2020

Opponents of the CAA and NRC have gone to town accusing the BJP of an ulterior motive...

The greatest threat to our democracy post 1975
Rediff.com19 Feb 2020

'Refusing to implement the CAA-NRC, as some states have done via resolutions in state...

The anatomy of an ugly protest
Rediff.com8 Jan 2020

The anti-CAA protest was an ugly rant more consistent with the violent chaos of...