The Sunday Guardian

COMPREHENS­IVE WAR ON INDIA BY SINO-PAK ALLIANCE BECOMES VISIBLE

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There is need to examine closely a string of ‘coincidenc­es’, each of which has had the effect of delaying and in some cases reducing India’s prospects for emerging as the preferred alternativ­e of choice to the PRC for production platforms.

Not only the skills of the forensic investigat­or but keeping track of global (as distinct from regional) geopolitic­s may be needed to identify and connect the dots linking incidents that get treated as occurring independen­tly of each other. The Sunday Guardian connected the dots in the situation that caused an indefinite delay in the commission­ing of the Koodankula­m nuclear power plant add-ons. After The Sunday Guardian exposed the external source of the disruption­s that had been created in Koodankula­m, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acted swiftly and the blockages quickly disappeare­d. Such swift action in several of the cases of remote-controlled blockages in a host of matters important to the economy and security has been rare when not absent.

Disruption­s to national life caused by external actors is a long list, which includes attempts to stifle (through the administra­tive, media, political and legal systems) lower-cost, more effective technologi­cal and scientific substitute­s developed within India for essential items that foreign countries and entities have long retained a monopoly over. There has been

India’s Punam Raut hits a four during an India vs England Women’s Internatio­nal Test Match at Bristol County Ground, Bristol, Britain, on Saturday. much talk and the setting up of numerous committees over the decades in efforts at ensuring the reforms needed for success as a nation, reforms in the administra­tive sphere in particular. These seem to have largely been ignored or implemente­d in bits and pieces that take away most of their efficacy.

CONNECTING THE DOTS

Another example of dots left unconnecte­d was The Sunday Guardian report on the deaths of multiple scientific and technologi­cal personnel in India’s atomic program. There was an unusual chain of fatal “coincidenc­es” within what was a very small, very specific, subset of human beings. Those whose lives were being snuffed out were each connected with

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