The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

July 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Truth is, the BJP-led government lost its nerve on sending combat troops to Iraq. For a leadership which went nuclear within two months of c...
Tue, Jul 15, 2003
July 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Unnerved by the possibility of casualties in Iraq in an election year, the BJP-led NDA Government is believed to have decided not to send co...
Mon, Jul 14, 2003
July 11, 2003 00:00 IST
In the wake of ‘‘commitments’’ given by Islamabad to SAARC that it will not drag its feet on promoting regional economic...
Fri, Jul 11, 2003
July 10, 2003 00:00 IST
In a sign of Washington’s keenness to get India to commit combat troops in Iraq, its National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice apologi...
Thu, Jul 10, 2003
July 08, 2003 00:00 IST
How can one man abuse the system so badly as to cause it irreversible harm? Ask Vijay Kumar, the ambassador-designate to Zimbabwe, who has s...
Tue, Jul 08, 2003
July 06, 2003 00:00 IST
THE reincarnation of Aziz Ahmed Khan from easygoing liberal to god-fearing Pashtun, one whose destiny was synonymous with Pakistan’s &#...
Sun, Jul 06, 2003
July 05, 2003 00:00 IST
New Delhi has officially expressed its strong disapproval to Washington over an invitation to Kashmiri leader Mehbooba Mufti for a State Dep...
Sat, Jul 05, 2003
July 02, 2003 00:00 IST
The Ministry of External Affairs is watching helplessly as ambassador-level officers are openly flaunting their so-called ‘‘connec...
Wed, Jul 02, 2003
July 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The biggest delegation from the UAE ever, consisting of the Who’s Who of the Emirates (save the old Sheikh himself) and led by Sheikh M...
Tue, Jul 01, 2003
June 28, 2003 00:00 IST
In what amounts to a major breakthrough on the 40-year-long border dispute that has contaminated India’s relations with China, Prime Mi...
Sat, Jun 28, 2003
June 27, 2003 00:00 IST
In the shadow of the Shanghai miracle and under the brooding gaze of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Kiran Karnik of Nasscom unveiled t...
Fri, Jun 27, 2003
June 26, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Vajpayee was shanghaied to Luoyang by the Buddhist connection this morning. Along with him went Special Representative on the...
Thu, Jun 26, 2003
June 25, 2003 00:00 IST
The exciting behind-the-scenes story of how the tough Chinese negotiators came to accept such explicit language on Sikkim can only be really...
Wed, Jun 25, 2003
June 25, 2003 00:00 IST
The old world has taken a fundamental new turn in Beijing, with China promising the Indian leadership that with a signature on a border trad...
Wed, Jun 25, 2003
June 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Apart from having the world’s largest population, the biggest army, a larger trade with the US than India’s entire exports, as wel...
Wed, Jun 25, 2003
June 24, 2003 00:00 IST
The PM and the President will come face to face tomorrow and take up from where they left off in St. Petersburg, Russia, three weeks ago. In...
Tue, Jun 24, 2003
June 24, 2003 00:00 IST
On a crisp evening in Beijing, just as the sun began to settle behind the calligraphic outlines of the mountains that have forever stood gua...
Tue, Jun 24, 2003
June 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Sidestepping the high Himalayan range, where the armies of India and China once fought a bitter and futile war more than 40 years ago, Prime...
Mon, Jun 23, 2003
June 23, 2003 00:00 IST
It’s been called a ‘‘moody city,’’ a city of contrasts, burnt to the ground by Genghis Khan in 1215 AD in a fit of ...
Mon, Jun 23, 2003
June 22, 2003 00:00 IST
As Air India One flies over the Great Wall of China tomorrow with A.B. Vajpayee on board, the PM’s thoughts must go back to that week i...
Sun, Jun 22, 2003
June 21, 2003 00:00 IST
India and China could take a great leap forward during Prime Minister Vajpayee’s visit to that country next week, but a joint declarati...
Sat, Jun 21, 2003
June 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will attempt to once again breach the great wall between India and China next week with a handful of six...
Fri, Jun 20, 2003
June 19, 2003 00:00 IST
India’s dilemma on sending troops to Iraq seems to have been exacerbated by the overall ‘‘negative’’ response on th...
Thu, Jun 19, 2003
June 17, 2003 00:00 IST
On the lines of the Afghan model, where a UN-authorised international security and assistance force is helping police the country, India wou...
Tue, Jun 17, 2003
June 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Hot on the heels of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani’s visit to the US, Pakistan’s General Musharraf is arriving to quite a recept...
Tue, Jun 17, 2003




