Amar Bhushan worked with the Research and Analysis Wing for 24 years after briefly serving in the BSF intelligence, State Special Branch and Intelligence Bureau. He served as the Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat before he retired in 2005. He has written several thrillers including Escape to Nowehere, The Zero-Cost Mission/The Wily Agent, Inside Nepal/The Walk In and Terror in Islamabad.
Director Sudipto Sen's movie 'The Kerala Story' has used claims of three young Hindu/Christian girls from different parts of the State to expose the dark truth behind conversion practiced by some Muslim groups and the horror victims have to live through ...
Amar Bhushan
| Thursday, March 30, 2023, 11:46 [IST]
Amritpal Singh Sandhu, Khalistan's new rising star in Punjab, is on the run following the police crackdown. The choice before him now is to get either caught, surrender, fight for his cause from behind the bar or spearhead the movement from ...
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, March 20, 2023, 11:46 [IST]
Appointment of ambassadors is a routine matter for any host country but it is not so in the case of Eric Garcetti. His confirmation was dogged by allegations in the US over his inaction for overlooking sexual assault by his top ...
Amar Bhushan
| Tuesday, March 07, 2023, 14:32 [IST]
The Supreme Court's move to reform the selection process of election commissioners has stirred a hornet's nest. Transparency is necessary as it removes cronyism and corruption and begets trust in the system. But it's not easy to achieve, given the way ...
Amar Bhushan
| Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 12:43 [IST]
The storm over the two-part docuseries of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), ‘India: The Modi question', has more or less subsided. It basically examines Modi's role as Chief Minister of Gujarat during 2002 riots, drawing inputs from highly subjective sources and holds ...
Amar Bhushan
| Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 15:50 [IST]
Musharraf is the only head of the state to have had five summit meetings with Indian prime ministers, 2 with AB Vajpayee of BJP and 3 with Manmohan Singh of Congress. A quintessential chameleon, he could deftly display different colours to ...
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, February 06, 2023, 09:22 [IST]
Panchsheel was initially adopted as a guide to conduct foreign relations with Beijing. It was later extended by Nehru to cover several nations Maintaining relations with neighbouring countries is a tough business for all governments. It is even tougher for India ...
Amar Bhushan
| Friday, January 27, 2023, 09:12 [IST]
Successive governments have been in the habit of revealing far too many sensitive information under political, judicial and diplomatic pressure Last week, the Supreme Court reiterated its recommendation to appoint three controversial lawyers as judges of the High Courts. While doing ...
Amar Bhushan
| Friday, January 20, 2023, 14:37 [IST]
What is now only to be settled is when does Pakistan finally exit from POK, Gilgit and Baltistan It is strange that Sharif should talk of peace and friendly relations with India, knowing fully well that similar noises made by Benazir ...
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, December 26, 2022, 17:31 [IST]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi emerges muddleheaded from 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' over what he wants to achieve from this political exercise. Political yatras are not unfamiliar to Indians. Each one of them had an objective and met with success, but not Rahul ...
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, December 19, 2022, 12:43 [IST]
Despite Opposition cacophony over Chinese incursion in Tawang, handing out any detailed information would have compromised the location and number of our troops, weapons they had, logistics in the area and operational plan. In the wee hours of December 9, PLA ...
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, December 12, 2022, 15:51 [IST]
Ridiculing the poll panel will not help improve its efficiency. It is the best you have to steer 'electoral democracy'. Election Commissioners are the usual punching bag of opposition parties. Of late, the Supreme Court has also joined the fun. While ...
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