Opinion Archive

  As Agni-V soared in the blue expanse from Wheeler Island off the Odisha Coast at 8.07 am on April 17, 2012 India entered the International Ballistic Missile Club. In so doing, it joined the illustrious group of the US, the UK, …

The assassination of al Qa’ida’s second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, by a remote controlled CIA Reaper drone is the most recent in a history of killings by these machines in Pakistan’s North West province. In the past eight years CIA drones …

Amongst the dross on news websites of late, the one report that had me  jittery was not from the Canberra cabal carping collective, but from the other side of the world. ‘Twas about housing, and it rang true for Australia. It concerned …