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.
Latest Stories
Could effective policing and good intelligence have made any difference to recent bursts of violence?
Amar Bhushan
| Friday, June 24, 2022, 14:25 [IST]
India has been witnessing violent incidents in the past couple of years and the question that comes to mind is why is the response by the police always reactive and inadequate In a country full of adversarial diversities, civilised ways of ...
Mullahs have pushed Indian Muslims into self-destructive violence
Amar Bhushan
| Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 16:44 [IST]
While the intensity of the law enforcement may vary from state to state, it will very soon catch up to all the rioters The case of Nupur Sharma's comment is a call for soul searching. What she said, did not say ...
Targeted killings in Kashmir: Do not react in panic and hurry for quick solutions
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, June 13, 2022, 10:43 [IST]
Though it sounded heartless for affected families, they could not afford to surrender to terrorists' diabolical plans to force non-Kashmiris to flee from valley with lock, stock and barrel Kashmir is not alien to targeted killings by homegrown and Pakistani terrorists. ...
How safe is national security in Arvind Kejriwal’s hands
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, June 06, 2022, 13:45 [IST]
Never the one to lose sight of his Muslim constituency, he opposed CAA, calling it communal and unnecessary and stood by Shaheen Bagh squatters. His tactical silence during 2020 communal riots while his councilor Tahir Hussain led riot and his ambiguous ...
Why 8 years of 'Modi Sarkar' has been transformational in many ways
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, May 30, 2022, 16:02 [IST]
The scale, depth and breadth of PM Modi's achievements in past eight years have been unprecedented but his political rivals and dissenters won't concede. Eight years of Modi government have been transformational in many ways. They evoke both awe from objective ...
Malik’s conviction exposes folly in propping him up by successive governments as a peace broker
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, May 23, 2022, 17:04 [IST]
For six years of Farooq Abdullah's rule, Yasin Malik had a free run. It has taken decades for law to catch up with Yasin Malik, chairman of J&K Liberation Front, who had been involved in engineering violent protests, pelting stones, burning ...
Attempts at reviving Khalistan movement is no worry but dismissing it altogether will be fatal
Amar Bhushan
| Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 13:36 [IST]
The platforms Khalistanis use to spearhead their movement are Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Zindabad Force and Pannu's Sikhs for Justice and Lashkar-e-Khalsa. Traumatic memories of Khalistan movement that rocked the nation and Punjab in particular during late 70s and 80s still ...
India’s pro-active neutrality on Ukrainian war is a winner
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, May 09, 2022, 10:09 [IST]
Reasons are evident. India has never invaded a nation. On the contrary, it has been at the receiving end of invaders - Pakistan, China, Greeks, Mughals and Britishers. It is eleven weeks since Ukraine war began but India has not budged ...
Uniform Civil Code is a victim of electoral politics and a victory for religious obscurantism
Amar Bhushan
| Saturday, April 30, 2022, 13:59 [IST]
The uniform civil code (UCC) has been a passion with BJP for long toward its vision of a homogenous, non-appeasing and non-discriminative India. The party's other passion was abrogation of Article 370 and 35A, that it fulfilled in 2019 to cement ...
In its new avatar, the bulldozer is keeping encroachers on their toes
Amar Bhushan
| Monday, April 25, 2022, 16:33 [IST]
The advent of bulldozer as a potent tool for controlling illegally constructed dwellings, is UP chief minister's singular contribution. It has won him the recent state elections, inspired chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) to come ...
‘Hindiphobia’ has become an annual shadow boxing event
Amar Bhushan
| Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 14:18 [IST]
Every year, Hindi appears briefly on the Indian political landscape as a bad omen to some and then quietly vanishes. The spark this year was provided by none other than Union Home Minister Amit Shah while presiding over the 37th meeting ...
To prevent disfiguring of Hinduism, Islam by radical groups, effective policing, political clarity needed
Amar Bhushan
| Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 11:06 [IST]
In recent months, a call for ban on Halal meat, hijab in classes, presence of Muslim shopkeepers in and around temples' premises and high-pitched volume of Azan in mosques has occupied a disproportionate space in national narrative. So much so that ...