India lets you be what you want to be…
That’s one of the wonderfully liberating things about India; it lets you be exactly what you want to be. And in many, many different ways. — Amitav Ghosh
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Time is not measured by…
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. – Jawaharlal Nehru
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Why I Write
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen …
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A diplomat remembers Mandela…: ‘Gandhi of Our Time’
Madiba, as South Africa’s national icon and liberator was fondly called, has said his final goodbye to this world where he scripted a new anthem of liberation for his nation …
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India outraged over arrest of Indian diplomat in US
Amid ongoing efforts to refurbish India-US relations, a wholly avoidable controversy has erupted over the arrest of a senior Indian diplomat in New York over charges of visa fraud, with …
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‘India has a unique strategic culture and diplomatic style’
Does India have its own strategic culture? It’s an overwhelming question, defying facile answers and theorising. On a bright and crisp winter morning in New Delhi, India’s National Security Adviser …
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What Mandela means for India: A Gandhian, a great soul, an icon of change
An iconic non-violent revolutionary, the liberator of South Africa and the creator of a rainbow nation, Nelson Mandela had a deeper spiritual connection with India that transcended the political realm. …
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Reimagining the global order: India will be a different kind of power
The unipolar moment is over; multi-polarity is the reigning trend that is defining the inter-state relations in the second decade of the 21st century, and will continue to do so. …
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Africa and the International Criminal Court
The opposition of many African governments to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is not new. Since 2008, when former ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo launched charges against Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, …
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Gen. Raheel Sharif: Chief Has Changed, Pakistan Army Remains the Same
A very good measure of the Pakistan Army’s enduring influence in national security and foreign policy matters and potential for interference in domestic politics is perhaps the anticipation and interest …
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