Will Manmohan Singh go to Pakistan this year?
India and Pakistan have managed to avoid controversy and grandstanding to forge a people-centric relationship on the back of a liberal visa pact, but given the lack of progress in …
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India and the Nuclear Domain
Ever since India and the United States declared their intention to resume bilateral cooperation in civilian uses of nuclear energy on July 18, 2005, there has been a national debate …
Read MoreChina gets real, engages India to counter US
The Chinese, as Henry Kissinger pointed out in 1971, are eminently pragmatic people. They became communists when they felt that it would help to accelerate their development. They gave up …
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India honours 1962 China war martyrs
Fifty years after China defeated India in a brief but brutal war, the Indian defence establishment has finally woken up to the rites of remembrance. For the first time since …
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Trade blooms, but China threat strong
Fifty years after the 1962 war, India has fashioned a pragmatic model of cooperation with China, placing economics above politics, but it has to bolster its diplomatic game and military …
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Why the China threat story sells in India
It’s the season of China-bashing in India. In bad old socialist days, the ruling party in India was quick to conjure up the “foreign hand” to distract public attention from …
Read MoreRewind to 2008: The Obama Moment
Obama: The Audacity Of Hope From a virtual unknown outside his home state of Illinois to the most powerful man on earth, Barack Obama has come a long way in …
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The Making of the Big Deal
After a thousand visions and revisions, India’s ruling coalition has finally put the intensely debated India-US nuclear deal on fast track. The July 22 trust vote in parliament swung the …
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Why Afghanistan Matters to India
The vehicle-borne suicide bomb attack at the entrance of the Indian embassy in Kabul and the resultant casualties have created a furore in the Indian national security establishment and the …
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Mumbai Attacks An ‘Act Of War’ By Pakistan: Rushdie
It takes an author to cut through rigmarole and long-winded diplomatese and calls a spade a spade. Salman Rushdie, the iconoclastic author of contemporary classics like Midnight’s Children and The …
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