The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

January 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Unlike many of his inward-looking colleagues, Prime Minister Vajpayee’s unabashed curiosity for the world outside his South Block well ...
Tue, Jan 21, 2003
January 21, 2003 00:00 IST
In the mounting bitterness of the India-Pakistan landscape, a recent, rare gesture of friendship on the part of Islamabad is in danger of be...
Tue, Jan 21, 2003
January 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Dangling the carrot of a security and diplomatic breakthrough on the contentious gas pipeline between Iran and India, New Delhi told a visit...
Sat, Jan 18, 2003
January 17, 2003 00:00 IST
From Mandalay to Ratnagiri via Yangon, the story of India and Myanmar is like a shared history-geography lesson. If the tortured histories o...
Fri, Jan 17, 2003
January 14, 2003 00:00 IST
The namaskar, as we all know, was intended by the law-giver Manu to keep the sexes apart. You could greet, he decreed in the interest of the...
Tue, Jan 14, 2003
January 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Seeking to cut through the fog of regional illwill and plain political mistrust with a strong dose of economics, External Affairs Minister Y...
Sat, Jan 11, 2003
January 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Seeking to break out of the blame game cycle with Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha is all set to propose ‘‘econo...
Fri, Jan 10, 2003
January 07, 2003 00:00 IST
At the height of the India-Pakistan crisis last summer, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi wanted so much to be part of the flurry o...
Tue, Jan 07, 2003
January 07, 2003 00:00 IST
Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi has left on what MEA mandarins call a ‘‘goodwill visit’’ to China, during which he will ...
Tue, Jan 07, 2003
January 07, 2003 00:00 IST
Shaken by the unsavoury squabbling within its ‘American parivar’, the RSS has ordered that the Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP)...
Tue, Jan 07, 2003
January 05, 2003 00:00 IST
Intended to showcase the best and the brightest Indians abroad, the much-hyped Pravasi Bharitya Divas being held here next week from January...
Sun, Jan 05, 2003
January 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The Japanese, unfortunately, never seem to get it right. One of the most interesting as well as among the richest countries in the world, To...
Wed, Jan 01, 2003
January 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The world’s most exclusive club, the UN Security Council, will roll over to admit a handful of new non-permanent members, including Pak...
Wed, Jan 01, 2003
December 31, 2002 00:00 IST
Less than a week after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami wound up his three-day tour of Pakistan, Teheran is said to have complained to Isl...
Tue, Dec 31, 2002
December 31, 2002 00:00 IST
Less than a week after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami wound up his three-day tour of Pakistan, Teheran is said to have complained to Isl...
Tue, Dec 31, 2002
December 24, 2002 00:00 IST
So why is China getting a little uncomfortable under the collar about India’s increasing academic and business links with Taiwan? For a...
Tue, Dec 24, 2002
December 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Shortly after former Secretary, Heavy Industries, B N Jha, had to pay with his job for travelling to Taiwan to attend a seminar, the Foreign...
Sun, Dec 22, 2002
December 18, 2002 00:00 IST
India is getting ready to spend a whopping Rs 5 crore on the ‘Bharatiya Pravasi Divas’ Non-Resident Indian jamboree, which will be...
Wed, Dec 18, 2002
December 10, 2002 00:00 IST
The story behind the US demarche to India on Afghanistan on behalf of Pakistan gets curiouser and curiouser. It now seems that Washington, w...
Tue, Dec 10, 2002
December 10, 2002 00:00 IST
Pakistan today announced the postponement of the SAARC summit to be held in Islamabad in January, citing a lack of quorum on India’s pa...
Tue, Dec 10, 2002
December 08, 2002 00:00 IST
Persuaded by its faithful friend and ally Pakistan, the United States has recently issued a demarche to India, suggesting that New Delhi go ...
Sun, Dec 08, 2002
December 07, 2002 00:00 IST
In the wake of External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha’s statement in Parliament 10 days ago describing the Pakistan High Commission i...
Sat, Dec 07, 2002
December 06, 2002 00:00 IST
Mere hours after the departure of Russian President Vla-dimir Putin for Bishkek and Moscow, a different sort of whirlwind had hit New Delhi:...
Fri, Dec 06, 2002
December 05, 2002 00:00 IST
Calling for an overhaul of the existing nuclear order, Russian President Vladimir Putin today emphasised the need to tighten international r...
Thu, Dec 05, 2002
December 04, 2002 00:00 IST
Hardly has the flight plan of a former world leader excited the imagination of so many in India. So when Russian President Vladimir Putin, t...
Wed, Dec 04, 2002




