The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

December 04, 2002 00:00 IST
For someone who’s seeking to assert himself at the centre of the BJP, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani seems to be particularly shy abo...
Wed, Dec 04, 2002
December 03, 2002 00:00 IST
Between the diplomatic jargon of declarations and statements of bilateral understanding, India and Russia are likely to take forward their c...
Tue, Dec 03, 2002
December 02, 2002 00:00 IST
India’s relationship with Russia is taking a quantum leap forward with the recent finalisation of an arms package that not only include...
Mon, Dec 02, 2002
November 29, 2002 00:00 IST
With India’s dismal assessment of the 1991 Gulf War apparently on his mind, External Affairs minister Yashwant Sinha told the Rajya Sab...
Fri, Nov 29, 2002
November 26, 2002 00:00 IST
The real story of India’s biscuit aid to Afghanistan—40,000 tonnes to feed 1 million Afghan kids over the next five winter months&...
Tue, Nov 26, 2002
November 26, 2002 00:00 IST
India and the US are getting set for another round of high-powered discussions in early-mid December with Principal Secretary and National S...
Tue, Nov 26, 2002
November 13, 2002 00:00 IST
Pervez Hoodbhoy, the well-known physicist and lecturer at Islamabad’s prestigious Qaid-e-Azam university, had to travel all the way to ...
Wed, Nov 13, 2002
November 12, 2002 00:00 IST
The Bolshevik Revolution was a mere 20 years old in 1937 when Yashwant Sinha was born in the fertile anarchism of Bihar. Sixty-five years la...
Tue, Nov 12, 2002
November 11, 2002 00:00 IST
A whole decade after the US slammed the door on the transfer of dual-use technology to India, both countries are set to embark on a new fram...
Mon, Nov 11, 2002
November 08, 2002 00:00 IST
Pakistan's exciting power play towards the formation of a government is reverberating across the Radcliffe Line, with New Delhi willing to r...
Fri, Nov 08, 2002
November 07, 2002 00:00 IST
India's steadfast refusal to commit itself to the SAARC summit in Pakistan in January is having the unfortunate effect of increasingly isola...
Thu, Nov 07, 2002
November 07, 2002 00:00 IST
L M Singhvi's broad brush with diplomacy during the PV Narasimha Rao and Deve Gowda years—he was a former High Commissioner to the UK d...
Thu, Nov 07, 2002
October 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Slowly but surely, India and Pakistan seem to be shedding their hardline rhetoric and re-establishing dialogue at both official and unoffici...
Tue, Oct 29, 2002
October 29, 2002 00:00 IST
At last, the ‘‘economics’’ in ‘‘diplomacy’’ may just be back in fashion. Foreign minister Yashwant S...
Tue, Oct 29, 2002
October 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Sikkim is so far away from the rest of the country, that ordinary commonplace things that you otherwise take so much for granted — for ...
Wed, Oct 23, 2002
October 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Like Banquo’s ghost, the US sits on the high table of the India-Pakistan relationship, watching every move. Truth is, Washington is a f...
Tue, Oct 22, 2002
October 19, 2002 00:00 IST
India and Pakistan should embark on a ‘‘parallel process’’ in which New Delhi offers dialogue on all issues, including K...
Sat, Oct 19, 2002
October 18, 2002 00:00 IST
Responding to India’s announcement of troop pull-back from the border, Pakistan said today that it, too, would withdraw troops from the...
Fri, Oct 18, 2002
October 18, 2002 00:00 IST
When things fall apart, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed told an adoring audience at the packed FICCI auditorium today, he a...
Fri, Oct 18, 2002
October 15, 2002 00:00 IST
For a visit that’s come nowhere close to being announced, the speculation about Prime Minister Vajpayee travelling to China soon is alm...
Tue, Oct 15, 2002
October 14, 2002 00:00 IST
The Art of War teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s mind but on our own readiness to receive him. Not on the chance ...
Mon, Oct 14, 2002
October 10, 2002 00:00 IST
King Gyanendra’s very regal nod to his Nepali subjects as they sought permission to speak at a FICCI function earlier this summer in Ne...
Thu, Oct 10, 2002
October 06, 2002 00:00 IST
India's putative ambassador to Nepal, Shyam Saran, will join his new post in Kathmandu by the third week of this month, indicating that King...
Sun, Oct 06, 2002
October 03, 2002 00:00 IST
A decade after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, India’s relations with Ukraine — the only serious competitor to Russ...
Thu, Oct 03, 2002
October 02, 2002 00:00 IST
It's become a ritual of sorts, a sort of high mantra between the leaders of Pakistan and China, an opening-line to their subsequent conversa...
Wed, Oct 02, 2002





