Lt Gen PR Shankar Retd, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

The new cold war

A major marker of the new cold war was the Covid pandemic. Two years of the pandemic brought the worst features of China to...

The new cold war

A major marker of the new cold war was the Covid pandemic. Two years of the pandemic brought the worst features of China to...

The new cold war

A major marker of the new cold war was the Covid pandemic. Two years of the pandemic brought the worst features of China to...

Pak is up a long and deep political creek without a paddle

What is Pakistan’s status and what are India’s options? From all accounts just when you thought that Pakistan has hit the rock bottom, it has...

Pak is up a long and deep political creek without a paddle

What is Pakistan’s status and what are India’s options? From all accounts just when you thought that Pakistan has hit the rock bottom, it has...

Pak is up a long and deep political creek without a paddle

What is Pakistan’s status and what are India’s options? From all accounts just when you thought that Pakistan has hit the rock bottom, it has...

India’s geopolitical mandala in 2023

2023 is critical for India from many aspects. It has to constantly stave off hostility in its immediate neighbourhood, stabilise turmoil in its near...

Tawang clash was a deliberate PLA operation

The Chinese attempt to seize a post is not a simple face-off as it is being made in some quarters. The implications of the...

Destabilising the Northeast on Chinese radar

The tribes, ethnicities and their issues in the Northeast are such that it takes very little imagination and some funding to stoke a social...

Destabilising the Northeast on Chinese radar

The tribes, ethnicities and their issues in the Northeast are such that it takes very little imagination and some funding to stoke a social...

Destabilising the Northeast on Chinese radar

The tribes, ethnicities and their issues in the Northeast are such that it takes very little imagination and some funding to stoke a social...

The falling trajectory of a rising China

Mr Xi Jinping, the Chairman of Everything and Dictator for Life will not only preside over the biggest demographic decline in mankind but will...

The falling trajectory of a rising China

Mr Xi Jinping, the Chairman of Everything and Dictator for Life will not only preside over the biggest demographic decline in mankind but will...

The falling trajectory of a rising China

Mr Xi Jinping, the Chairman of Everything and Dictator for Life will not only preside over the biggest demographic decline in mankind but will...

Red alert: What after Chinese Communists’ 20th Party Congress?

The LAC will be a pressure point to lean on the Indian government. One can expect missile firing in high altitudes, infrastructure build-up, an...

Red alert: What after Chinese Communists’ 20th Party Congress?

The LAC will be a pressure point to lean on the Indian government. One can expect missile firing in high altitudes, infrastructure build-up, an...

Red alert: What after Chinese Communists’ 20th Party Congress?

The LAC will be a pressure point to lean on the Indian government. One can expect missile firing in high altitudes, infrastructure build-up, an...

China: From drought to decline and danger

Droughts and floods have been endemic to China from time immemorial. Many Chinese dynasties have collapsed due to drought, famines and floods. The current...

China: From drought to decline and danger

Droughts and floods have been endemic to China from time immemorial. Many Chinese dynasties have collapsed due to drought, famines and floods. The current...

China: From drought to decline and danger

Droughts and floods have been endemic to China from time immemorial. Many Chinese dynasties have collapsed due to drought, famines and floods. The current...

Ailing China on a decline

Xi Jinping has yanked hard left and is making China a command economy. Large powerful state enterprises have taken precedence over a once vibrant...

China’s twin Ponzis: When the dragon is actually a lizard

The two Ponzis will slow down the Chinese economy and curb its global influence. China will have to find a new economic model to...

China’s twin Ponzis: When the dragon is actually a lizard

The two Ponzis will slow down the Chinese economy and curb its global influence. China will have to find a new economic model to...

China’s twin Ponzis: When the dragon is actually a lizard

The two Ponzis will slow down the Chinese economy and curb its global influence. China will have to find a new economic model to...

China’s global influence is waning

The Chinese elite capture-debt trap model is crude in comparison to the US-aid based approach. China’s rise, role in international affairs and the influence it...

China’s global influence is waning

The Chinese elite capture-debt trap model is crude in comparison to the US-aid based approach. China’s rise, role in international affairs and the influence it...

China’s global influence is waning

The Chinese elite capture-debt trap model is crude in comparison to the US-aid based approach. China’s rise, role in international affairs and the influence it...

Agnipath and The parachute in Pay Commissions

It has been repeatedly stated that models of other militaries have been studied to evolve the Agnipath scheme. Has anyone studied the benefits accorded...

Agnipath and The parachute in Pay Commissions

It has been repeatedly stated that models of other militaries have been studied to evolve the Agnipath scheme. Has anyone studied the benefits accorded...

Agnipath and The parachute in Pay Commissions

It has been repeatedly stated that models of other militaries have been studied to evolve the Agnipath scheme. Has anyone studied the benefits accorded...

USD 350 mn ADB loan approved to enhance India’s logistics

Venugopal’s ‘resignation offer’ rejected by Rahul

Book on war in the Himalayas goes beyond India-China binary

Lt Gen PR Shankar Retd

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