Shiv Kunal Verma, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

The Muslim card: Rise of the Lion of Kashmir

Each and every time, Kashmiri Pandit boys who applied with him, invariably got the scholarships, which convinced the young Sheikh Abdullah that the feudal...

A bipolar universe: Maharaja Hari Singh’s ‘great betrayal’

Much to the horror of the British, Hari Singh, as the Chairman of the Chamber of Princes, literally knocked the wind out of the...

Cat and Mouse Games: British Empire and the J&K Maharajas

In 1905, it was decided to do away with the Dogra Dynasty completely, but the British machinations leaked it to the Calcutta-based Amrit Bazar...

Kingdom of mountains: Dogras and the East India Company

Gulab Singh got the tarnished reputation of a manipulator who ‘bought’ himself a kingdom. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth and...

Stones of silence: Ladakh and beyond

The September 1842 peace treaty accepted the traditional boundary between Ladakh and Tibet. The village and the area around Minsar near Mansarover Lake that...

Mastermind: The emergence of Gulab Singh

Gulab Singh took it upon himself to honour the Tripartite Treaty, thereby getting the British out of a tight spot. This earned him huge...

Dining at the High Table: The Early Military History of Kashmir

The Kashmir Valley by itself has always been a part and parcel of the subcontinent’s military history. Bandrol, Kullu: Time and again one hears the lament...

Puppeteers without strings: Pied pipers of hate

Winston Churchill was closely in touch with Jinnah since the early 1930s and had done the initial spadework to accept the Partition plan. Bandrol, Kullu: One...

The Heaven Born: The Men Who Ruled Kashmir

Papa John told me not to tell Sheikh Abdullah that the villages were in such abject poverty that they were ripe for a Che...

Nights without end: Four days with the Hizbul Mujahideen

The Sunday Guardian brings to its readers an unconventional account of Kashmir by filmmaker and author Shiv Kunal Verma. The author of the highly...

Target G219, deploy weapons of peace

Whenever China decides to poke at India anywhere on the 4,056 kilometre boundary, we as a nation are subconsciously teleported to the events that...

Target G219, deploy weapons of peace

Whenever China decides to poke at India anywhere on the 4,056 kilometre boundary, we as a nation are subconsciously teleported to the events that...

Target G219, deploy weapons of peace

Whenever China decides to poke at India anywhere on the 4,056 kilometre boundary, we as a nation are subconsciously teleported to the events that...

Repeated intelligence failures: Time to worry

Keep an eye on the developments in what is known as the ‘Central Sector’ where initial though yet to be officially confirmed reports coming...

Repeated intelligence failures: Time to worry

Keep an eye on the developments in what is known as the ‘Central Sector’ where initial though yet to be officially confirmed reports coming...

Repeated intelligence failures: Time to worry

Keep an eye on the developments in what is known as the ‘Central Sector’ where initial though yet to be officially confirmed reports coming...

Ladakh could be a feint, China’s big push may be coming from the east

India, led by its overactive media, will continue to harp on the carefully laid out trap that focuses on ‘loss of territory’ and the...

Optical illusions: How to Win wars, not just battles

A narrative is being put out by a lobby that India has lost territory and PP 14 is no longer with us. This is...

Chinese checkers: Looking beyond the mask

After the start of the pandemic, few would have expected Xi Jinping to don the war paint and literally follow in Mao’s footsteps where...

Enemy at the gates, so don’t cry wolf

Learn to master the ancient Indian art of maunvrat. Rinderpest is also more commonly known as the “foot and mouth” disease and in the past,...

Enemy at the gates, so don’t cry wolf

Learn to master the ancient Indian art of maunvrat. Rinderpest is also more commonly known as the “foot and mouth” disease and in the past,...

Enemy at the gates, so don’t cry wolf

Learn to master the ancient Indian art of maunvrat. Rinderpest is also more commonly known as the “foot and mouth” disease and in the past,...

The Psychological games the Chinese play with us

In 1962, PLA ‘terror squads’ had shown no mercy or remorse, gunning down and bayoneting retreating Indian soldiers in cold blood. In what was...

Time to take on the neighbourhood bully

Georg Hegel says we learn from history that we have never learnt from history. In the context of Indo-Sino relations, this couldn’t be more...

Time to take on the neighbourhood bully

Georg Hegel says we learn from history that we have never learnt from history. In the context of Indo-Sino relations, this couldn’t be more...

Time to take on the neighbourhood bully

Georg Hegel says we learn from history that we have never learnt from history. In the context of Indo-Sino relations, this couldn’t be more...

Kachchatheevu and the debate on geo-economics and maritime security

India-Taiwan relations reach a higher orbit

Need for India-Bangladesh economic cooperation deal: CUTS

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