K.S.Dhillon is a former Director General of Police in the Indian states of Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, a former vice chancellor of Bhopal University and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: Pakistan: Religion, Terrorism and Democracy Ayodhaya – The Judicial Verdict and After Anna Hazare […]
By KS Dhillon Don Quixote or The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, to give it its full title, a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, who reads too many chivalric novels, and sets out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza,
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By KS Dhillon* The long awaited verdict delivered by the Lucknow bench of the Allahbad High Court in the decades old title suit between some Hindu and Muslim organizations over the ownership of a piece of land, known as the Babri Masjid-Ramjanambhumi complex in Ayodhya has evoked mixed reactions not only in India but throughout
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By K.S. Dhillon[1] The full significance of the terrorist strike at the heavily guarded Marriott hotel in Islamabad’s maximum security and restricted-entry zone on 20 September 2008 needs to be assessed more realistically than is being done by political and strategic analysts in South Asia, especially so far as its symbolic value for Islamist militants
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