Maldives: Towards a free and peaceful poll
Ahead of the first round of presidential polls on 7 September, the Election Commission (EC) of Maldives recently came out with do’s and don’ts for the nation’s police force. It …
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Zubin Mehta in Kashmir: Playing Beethoven amid partisan chatter
It looks like a scene from an aesthete’s paradise: the luminous music of Beethoven and Haydn is poised to mingle with echoes of Amir Khusrau’s couplets of longing in the …
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BRICS bond in times of crisis, unveil 100bn currency fund
ST. PETERSBURG: Amid the festering global slowdown, the BRICS club of emerging economies has underlined its commitment to add more economic traction to the five-nation grouping by unveiling progress in …
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It’s time to alter perception of India and China as rivals
International politics and economy are passing through a multi-faceted transition today. It is for scholars to identify the main trends, themes and issues as well as specific challenges and opportunities …
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Fusing adventure with diplomacy: India’s Latin America odyssey
It’s an epic odyssey, spanning a 35,000- km overland journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and promises to provide fresh ballast to India’s reawakened Latin America diplomacy. Thousands of …
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Syria strike: Rise beyond politics, acknowledge costs of doing nothing
Ten days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century. Yesterday the United …
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Potential Military Strikes in Syria Threaten Regional Flare-up
The reported chemical weapons strike in the Eastern suburbs of Damascus in Syria on 21 August which killed up to 1300 people has taken the current Syrian conflict to yet …
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Beyond regime change politics: Spare Syria more violence
Some years ago Dr. Khalid El Sheikh, former Palestinian Ambassador to India, a fine human being and a scholar, gifted me a book he had authored on the history of …
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Changing Myanmar: Two years after that fateful meeting
On August 19, 2011, Myanmar’s President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met at the presidential palace in Naypyidaw. Photographed together for the first time, with Aung …
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Reassessing the US Pivot to Asia
As the US continues its ‘pivot’ back to Asia, three important points need to be reiterated. First, is there really a ‘pivot’? Did the US really leave Asia to pivot …
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