In a decade that witnessed turbulence marked not only by security concerns from across the two extremities of India’s borders, but non-orthodox dissonance by way of an upsetting interior design that has been intimidating to the temperament of India, a quiet and reasonable tone that counselled both calibrated methodology and remedy continually came to the fore in the time of distress that overcame India national security.
While it cannot be immediately discerned whether the caution and direction was heeded to in its fullest, the aspect that resonated across the length and breadth of India—particularly the sensitive North East of the country—was that it had a gravity that can, in the new decade that is upon us, bring course correction to India’s security when the nation’s needs it most.
In celebration of that sane voice that enjoined practitioners of theory and theoreticians of practice, Northeast News (nenews.in) votes Jaideep Saikia as India’s Strategist of two Decades (2002-2022).
