A Quiver Full of Arrows: In Defence of India's National Interests and Civilisational Values
News 18The essay has remained a popular form of literature since the days of The Spectator founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in 1711. The rot began at the top, and the author cogently argues how India’s political-intellectual ecosystem, which goes by the name of Lutyens Delhi, ruined India’s development path. In two essays titled ‘Narendra Bhai: One of your Conscience-Keepers Sets out Your Action Plan and Agenda – I & II’, written a few months before Narendra Modi stormed into South Block in 2014, the author provided a wish list: Giving India’s armed forces their due; restoration of the balance in the historiography followed in the country; ushering in good governance and its constituent components; making bureaucracy technocratic and accountable; reining in the judiciary; streamlining the justice delivery system; and, stamping out corruption and graft. In an article written for Indian Defence Review the author laments that India is still a soft state manipulated by its civilisational enemies. Similarly, in Our Armed Forces Severely Handicapped when Fighting Terror, he rues the deplorable role of the Defence Ministry, when in January 2018 the then Mehbooba Mufti government in J&K filed an FIR against Major Aditya Kumar for an incident in Shopian although he was not even present at the spot, and his father Colonel Karamveer Singh had to approach the Supreme Court to quash the FIR against his son.
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