The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

May 13, 2003 00:00 IST
In his former incarnation as External Affairs Minister, Jaswant Singh’s penchant for the Rajasthani folk proverb was well known interna...
Tue, May 13, 2003
May 10, 2003 00:00 IST
One whole year after he failed to get General Musharraf to deliver on his promise to the US to ‘‘permanently’’ end cross...
Sat, May 10, 2003
May 08, 2003 00:00 IST
External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha will travel to London to attend a Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) meeting on May 21, t...
Thu, May 08, 2003
May 08, 2003 00:00 IST
Less than 24 hours after it slammed Pakistan for its ‘‘completely inadequate’’ movement on ending cross-border terrorism...
Thu, May 08, 2003
May 07, 2003 00:00 IST
India's ambassador to China, Shiv Shankar Menon, is all set to take over the highly coveted post of High Commissioner to Pakistan.Menon is b...
Wed, May 07, 2003
May 06, 2003 00:00 IST
The relationship between India and Pakistan is so tortured that even half a step in any direction is perceived as being loaded with much mea...
Tue, May 06, 2003
May 06, 2003 00:00 IST
Impressed by the ‘‘statesmanship’’ shown by PM A.B. Vajpayee in launching a third peace initiative with Pakistan, Britis...
Tue, May 06, 2003
May 04, 2003 00:00 IST
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister today indicated that Islamabad could abandon its extraordinary emphasis on the ‘‘core’’...
Sun, May 04, 2003
May 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Parliamentarians from India and Pakistan will give sub-continental peace a shot in the arm when they cross the land frontier at Attari-Wagah...
Thu, May 01, 2003
April 30, 2003 00:00 IST
It's deja vu time in New Delhi again. Ten years since the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition—when leaders and potentates from Bur...
Wed, Apr 30, 2003
April 29, 2003 00:00 IST
It must take a brave woman to write a tear-jerker for a dictator and his friends, dead or alive. Nostalgia for Saddam Hussein has been weari...
Tue, Apr 29, 2003
April 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The Agra nightmare’s over. And so’s the 18-month-long deadlock spawned by the terrorist attack on Parliament. Pakistan Prime Minis...
Tue, Apr 29, 2003
April 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The proverbial can of worms labelled “Vijay Kumar, India’s high commissioner to Mauritius,’’ has been opened and it cont...
Tue, Apr 29, 2003
April 24, 2003 00:00 IST
The deep-freeze in the India-Pakistan dialogue is all set for a summer churning with the onset of high-profile traffic between the leadershi...
Thu, Apr 24, 2003
April 23, 2003 00:00 IST
As Iraqi Shias mark their first post-Saddam Hussein commemoration of the death in 680 AD of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet, in Ka...
Wed, Apr 23, 2003
April 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Seldom has New Delhi’s foreign policy elite been so exercised about the travels of a PM abroad, but Syria seems to have shocked them in...
Wed, Apr 23, 2003
April 22, 2003 00:00 IST
In the end, even his personal friendship with the President could not help the Professor save his job in New Delhi. Robert Blackwill, the US...
Tue, Apr 22, 2003
April 15, 2003 00:00 IST
With apologies to T S Eliot — again — Defence Minister George Fernandes may have just broken the ‘‘April is the cruelles...
Tue, Apr 15, 2003
April 11, 2003 00:00 IST
April's far from being the cruellest month for Defence Minister George Fernandes. Five years after he named China as India’s major riva...
Fri, Apr 11, 2003
April 10, 2003 00:00 IST
As the beginning of the end game in Iraq became a reality this afternoon, the Ministry of External Affairs got down to the task of consignin...
Thu, Apr 10, 2003
April 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Having succeeded in avoiding a Parliamentary condemnation of the US action in Iraq, the Government has now decided to send its Ambassador to...
Wed, Apr 09, 2003
April 08, 2003 00:00 IST
Even though London and Washington are holding their breath on the need for India and Pakistan to return to dialogue, both widely continue to...
Tue, Apr 08, 2003
April 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The war in Iraq has, meanwhile, been slowing down New Delhi’s initiatives in other areas. Defence Minister George Fernandes was to have...
Tue, Apr 01, 2003
March 29, 2003 00:00 IST
‘‘No, no, no, I am not an American. I am a Syrian journalist.’’ The assertion of identity in the face of the deep unknow...
Sat, Mar 29, 2003
March 29, 2003 00:00 IST
Nervous about a preemptive Indian strike on Pakistan in reaction to the Sunday massacre of Kashmiri Pandits at a time when their governments...
Sat, Mar 29, 2003

