India if not the study of contradictions, is a study of contrasts. Lack of the very opportunities and the poverty at extreme which co-exist along with the obscene wealth and rapid economic growth ultimately creating the impact on the commentators which often then conceptualize this as ‘two India’s’, created by the destabilizers both internal and external. The growing crisis of the capacities, infirmities in structure & high incoherence are few responses by the state to the existing emerging challenges of internal security. Though we cannot deny the fact that the India despite having some vulnerabilities, have experience in bravely defeating the most of the terrorist movements and virulent insurgent. But, unfortunately this consistency of successfully taking actions against counter-terrorism campaigns have not able to transfer itself to other areas of issue.
The biggest obstacle after India is to protect it’s citizen’s cultural, political & physical identity. Non-state actors and also state actors are in contemporary time the actual threat to Internal Security of India. But now by changing paradigm of nation’s internal security this threat also include threat from the cyber world, corona-virus and technology which are acting as black swan events these days. Therefore, the internal security focus should also be the society in maintaining the communal harmony, hence people and society both are the focal point in dealing with internal security of the nation; along with the issue of terrorism[1]. Because it is the undeniable fact that the now state are not safe anymore, as India remains the target of terrorist and also not prone to cyber activity against citizens. Thus, these are the significant issues and problems that are being taken into account while determining the paper’s current subject matter.
[1] Hamid Ansari, ‘For Internal Security, the State Must Be Accountable and True to Its Principles’, The Wire, 15 February 2017.https://thewire.in/government/internal-security-state-must-accountable-true-principles
