Saikat Datta

Saikat Datta

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  • Who Dares Wins

    Almost 24 years ago, two Indian naval officers were quietly sent off to the United States to attend a training course that few really knew much about. Since then it has been a tragedy of monumental neglect...

    BY Saikat Datta 3 May 2011

    Who Dares Wins
  • Lessons For India

    Time our security establishment learnt from the systemic changes and reform that has been attempted by the US in the two decades between the disaster in Iran, the 9/11 attack and the subsequent war against terror in Afghanistan

    BY Saikat Datta 1 May 2011

    Lessons For India
  • Unending Tragedies

    The humiliation of 1962, the Rubaiya Sayeed hostage crisis, the Al Faran kidnapping of foreign tourists, IC 814... or even the recent abduction of the district collector of Malkangiri in Orissa and a junior engineer by Maoists...

    BY Saikat Datta 24 February 2011

    Unending Tragedies
  • I Was Just Doing My Job

    What if I am a journalist covering the ministry of defence? What if an arms dealer (or lobbyist) becomes one of my “legitimate sources” for news?

    BY Saikat Datta 23 November 2010

    I Was Just Doing My Job
  • What Are India's Options?

    "Bomb Islamabad!" That's what a representative of the Samajwadi Party suggested at one of the UPA meetings. But are there serious options that one could look at as a credible response to these terror attacks?

    BY Saikat Datta 30 November 2008

    What Are India's Options?
  • The Gateway Of India

    By mid-September, Indian agencies knew that the attack would come from the sea, by mid-November, they knew that the Taj hotel would be targeted... And yet... and yet... A blow by blow account of how the plan to attack Mumbai by sea was hatched and ex

    BY Saikat Datta 28 November 2008

    The Gateway Of India
  • Still At Sea

    They came out from the sea, while the Indian security agencies remained very much there. If anyone needed a lesson on how to conduct special operations from the sea, they could take a leaf out of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai

    BY Saikat Datta 26 November 2008

    Still At Sea
  • The Road To Azamgarh

    Every road has a story to tell, waiting to be heard by the traveller. The road to Azamgarh from Varanasi, just touching Munshi Premchand's village 'Lamhi,' has a story that is crying to be heard in our tryst with terror.

    BY Saikat Datta 21 October 2008

    The Road To Azamgarh

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