Knowledge is Power: It’s time to step up Indian Ocean dialogue
The geopolitics of the Indian Ocean is in a flux. It is essential for us to appreciate accurately the contours of India’s worldview and role of the Indian Ocean in …
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Terror targets India in Afghanistan, again; India says will go on
The suicide attack explosion targeting the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has once again highlighted the perennial threat to India’s interests in Afghanistan, which continue to …
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Telangana: The politics and economics of India’s 29th state
After nearly 60 years of struggle, marked by two major agitations which saw an immolation in 2010 and the death of over 1000 people, the backward and impoverished region of …
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The Poverty of Discourse: Food for Thought
The current discourse on poverty in India, triggered by a report of the Planning Commission last week claiming that the official poverty headcount ratio had come down from 37 per …
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Thinking Smart: A giant digital leap for India’s foreign office
In a revolutionary step to make Indian diplomacy more people-centric, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has launched a smartphone mobile app to become the first foreign office in the …
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India’s soft power is based on dialogue, not monologue: ICCR chief
In a world riven by shifting alliances, competing nationalist agendas and competitive power projections, soft power has acquired a special resonance and salience. What hard power can’t achieve, soft power …
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France upbeat about Rafale, high on India defence ties
India-France defence relations are like premium French wine. They get better with time. The metaphor of wine, often used by French diplomats to talk lightly about tricky issues, conjures up …
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Dubai Unbound: Tourism, economy bounce back; India bets on growth story
DUBAI: Rejoice, recession seems to be over in Dubai, a mecca for businessmen, shopaholics and pleasure-seekers. Whoever visited Dubai in 2008-09 knows what it was like in those days. Empty …
Read MoreBiden pitches for ‘Big 3’ trilateral between US, India and China
Against the backdrop of Beijing’s apprehensions over Washington’s pursuit of a China containment conspiracy, US Vice-President Joe Biden has chosen India’s financial hub to pitch for a trilateral dialogue between …
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Surinamese Indians: A new voyage of nostalgia and rediscovering roots
It’s been 140 years ago since the first group of Indians reached Suriname, then a Dutch colony in northern South America, in June 1873 on the sailing ship Lalla Rookh. …
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