The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

September 02, 2003 00:00 IST
The regional big picture — from the Middle East to China via Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan — will be on the agenda when Christina...
Tue, Sep 02, 2003
September 02, 2003 00:00 IST
One hot summer morning in Haifa three years ago, a group of Bene Israelis from Bombay turned out to greet travelling Indian journalists with...
Tue, Sep 02, 2003
September 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Reassured by India’s ‘‘unwavering support’’ for the Palestinian cause, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath to...
Mon, Sep 01, 2003
August 31, 2003 00:00 IST
From the kingdom of the gods, a people’s prince has been charming the city’s creme de la creme over the last few days, speaking so...
Sun, Aug 31, 2003
August 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Hours after it resisted the temptation of improving people-to-people contacts by allowing the revival of air links with Pakistan, the MEA gr...
Sat, Aug 30, 2003
August 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Sha’ath arrived in the Capital at the crack of dawn, but it took a meeting with Prime Minister A.B. ...
Sat, Aug 30, 2003
August 26, 2003 00:00 IST
Its such a long journey from the South American capital of Georgetown to the backward village of Thakurain ka Purwa in the renamed Amethi co...
Tue, Aug 26, 2003
August 22, 2003 00:00 IST
At loggerheads with the UN on Iraq so far, the assassination of Kofi Annan’s special envoy to Baghdad Sergio Viera de Mello two days ag...
Fri, Aug 22, 2003
August 21, 2003 00:00 IST
As New Delhi mourned the death of UN special envoy to Iraq Sergio Viera de Mello in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said that none other than ...
Thu, Aug 21, 2003
August 21, 2003 00:00 IST
China's decision to ‘‘start the process’’ by which Sikkim will cease to be an issue with India seems to have hardly perc...
Thu, Aug 21, 2003
August 21, 2003 00:00 IST
If the Dalai Lama is successful in making a compromise with China, and our Prime Minister can be a mediator in this relation, nothing will m...
Thu, Aug 21, 2003
August 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Nervous about the possible reaction to a first-ever visit by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon from September 9-11, India has invited Pale...
Wed, Aug 20, 2003
August 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Throw open the doors and windows between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said on Independence Day address. Tell that...
Tue, Aug 19, 2003
August 13, 2003 00:00 IST
In the heart of the Himalayas, a nation on the brink of civil war is holding its breath as King Gyanendra directs his men to return to a thi...
Wed, Aug 13, 2003
August 12, 2003 00:00 IST
There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, but Shashank, the seniormost secretary in the MEA, is clearly hoping that his African ...
Tue, Aug 12, 2003
August 12, 2003 00:00 IST
India has just couriered someone a special gift. Annotated copies of the Indian Constitution, DVDs of the Legend of Bhagat Singh and Jawahar...
Tue, Aug 12, 2003
August 05, 2003 00:00 IST
The man who, on behalf of the US, invited India to send combat troops to Iraq, will get together with Defence Secretary Ajay Prasad this wee...
Tue, Aug 05, 2003
August 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The separatist Hurriyat conglomerate is coming to the capital on August 4 to hold a series of meetings with envoys, including Islamabad’...
Fri, Aug 01, 2003
July 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The ‘‘Indian connection’’ is growing in the White House. In the wake of the appointment of the outgoing US ambassador to...
Tue, Jul 29, 2003
July 29, 2003 00:00 IST
Just like the war in Iraq split the West down the middle, says David Mulford, a former Under Secretary at the US Treasury and currently inte...
Tue, Jul 29, 2003
July 27, 2003 00:00 IST
To save Islamabad any embarrassment during the fledgling peace process, New Delhi may have spared him the ignominy of a Kargil victory remin...
Sun, Jul 27, 2003
July 27, 2003 00:00 IST
FOURTEEN years at being a Harvard don certainly taught Robert D Blackwill the power of the thrust and parry — and some say that’s ...
Sun, Jul 27, 2003
July 26, 2003 00:00 IST
In what was closely followed by diplomats here, US Ambassador Robert Blackwill—who leaves India at the end of the month after two years...
Sat, Jul 26, 2003
July 24, 2003 00:00 IST
‘‘Pakistan must stretch its legs according to its bed. The best way to keep a friendly neighbourhood is to fight jointly and since...
Thu, Jul 24, 2003
July 22, 2003 00:00 IST
If travel broadens the mind, there’s nothing more worthwhile than a bus or train journey to readjust the centripetal lobes. Unlike aero...
Tue, Jul 22, 2003





