The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

June 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Nearly 2,000 ago, the first Indian pilgrims carried Lord Buddha’s message across the high mountains in the north and into the vast expa...
Tue, Jun 10, 2003
June 10, 2003 00:00 IST
If you’re wondering why India wasn’t in tune with most of the world — which not only roundly condemned the arrest of Burmese ...
Tue, Jun 10, 2003
June 07, 2003 00:00 IST
The leaders of Russia and France have told Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee that they are in favour of modifying rules of the Nuclear Suppliers ...
Sat, Jun 07, 2003
June 05, 2003 00:00 IST
The slow and steady restoration of normalcy between India and Pakistan is running into a roadblock with Pakistan linking the revival of trai...
Thu, Jun 05, 2003
June 04, 2003 00:00 IST
With India and Pakistan returning to a semblance of normalcy with bus, train and airlinks, both sides are now looking forward to Shiv Shanke...
Wed, Jun 04, 2003
June 03, 2003 00:00 IST
As he criss-crossed middle Europe over the past eight days and broke bread with some of the world’s most powerful leaders — as wel...
Tue, Jun 03, 2003
June 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Even as the US strides across the globe like a unipolar colossus after Iraq, it is actually a multipolar world in which India will faithfull...
Tue, Jun 03, 2003
June 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was supposed to have watched a compelling performance of the Mariinsky ballet while supping a many-cours...
Mon, Jun 02, 2003
June 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Welcome to Switzerland! Bonjour, this is France! The Alps are as beautiful as their storybook reputation on the drive from Geneva airport to...
Mon, Jun 02, 2003
June 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Vajpayee shared the central table with President George Bush and European Union chief and Greek Premier Konstandinos Simitis ...
Sun, Jun 01, 2003
May 31, 2003 00:00 IST
A perfectly grey sky wrapped in an indifferent drizzle greeted Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and other world leaders as they arrived h...
Sat, May 31, 2003
May 31, 2003 00:00 IST
The mood at the meeting between Indian and German industries in Munich was sombre on Thursday, as both sides exhorted each other not to aban...
Sat, May 31, 2003
May 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Kinder statt Inder. Literally, Children instead of Indians. Metaphorically, educate your own people, rather than importing foreigners to do ...
Fri, May 30, 2003
May 30, 2003 00:00 IST
When soundbites clash with the statistics of circulation, you better keep humour out of the way. Especially on somnolent afternoons, with th...
Fri, May 30, 2003
May 29, 2003 00:00 IST
Like a master card player who revels in never fully revealing his hand, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today neatly transferred some o...
Thu, May 29, 2003
May 29, 2003 00:00 IST
There’s a sense of fulfillment in this once-divided city, as brick and mortar and glass buildings erase the physical vestiges of the Wa...
Thu, May 29, 2003
May 28, 2003 00:00 IST
The past seemed to be omnipresent in the Berlin Intercontinental this evening as the singing of Ram Dhun, Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite so...
Wed, May 28, 2003
May 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee’s three-nation tour to Germany, Russia and France, via Switzerland this week, is already said to be costin...
Tue, May 27, 2003
May 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Keen to be counted upon as a big international player in Iraq, but afraid of a public outcry against any move to send troops to that country...
Tue, May 27, 2003
May 26, 2003 00:00 IST
The victors and the vanquished of the unipolar world order will assemble around the loaded caviar-and-vodka high tables of the Silver Whispe...
Mon, May 26, 2003
May 23, 2003 00:00 IST
India, America and Israel are all set to shed their Cold War stereotypes and promote a brave, new triangle with the American Jewish Committe...
Fri, May 23, 2003
May 22, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has decided to brush aside the doomsday scenario being painted over the SARS threat in China in favour of a vis...
Thu, May 22, 2003
May 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Will the new Pakistan High Commissioner to India please stand up? Whatever the truth and whether or not Islamabad’s man in Beijing Riaz...
Tue, May 20, 2003
May 14, 2003 00:00 IST
India could be ready to participate in a US-led ‘‘stabilisation force’’ for Iraq, except that Washington’s label as...
Wed, May 14, 2003
May 13, 2003 00:00 IST
At a time when most of the civilised world was either letting its hair down or putting its feet up — on a Saturday night — General...
Tue, May 13, 2003





