Atul K. Thakur

Srinath Raghavan’s India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia (1939–1945) is a welcome addition to his previous volumes on South Asia, in particular on Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime...

• Atul K. Thakur |
• May 2017 |
• Strategic Analysis

In 2015, when India and Pakistan are into their 69th year of independence, this is an occasion to look back on the lost plot of their strategic engagements. The partition...

• Atul K. Thakur |
• March 2016 |
• Strategic Analysis

Rendezvous with Rebels is the passionate account of Rajeev Bhattacharyya’s daring journey to the rebel bases in Myanmar’s Sagaing Division where several separatist outfits from India’s troubled Northeast have established...

• Atul K. Thakur |
• September 2015 |
• Strategic Analysis

This is Jaswant Singh’s eleventh known book, and here he keeps his focus on experiences rather than rhetoric to deal with the complex design of India’s security challenges. While relying...

• Atul K. Thakur |
• September 2014 |
• Strategic Analysis

The current state of Pakistan is messy and full of existential contradictions. The nation was built on a separate Muslim identity and on the pretext that in independent and integrated...

• Atul K. Thakur |
• May 2014 |
• Strategic Analysis

Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States is an uncompromising and riveting account of the uncomfortable aspects of American history. The book studies...

• Atul K. Thakur |
• September 2013 |
• Strategic Analysis

Imperialism never gives on its own will. The all-season historian, William Dalrymple, echoes this message throughout Return of a King. In comparison to his unwavering research on India, which is...

• Atul K. Thakur |
• May 2013 |
• Strategic Analysis