The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

May 01, 2002 00:00 IST
On the eve of a senior officials meeting with the European Union on Thursday, the Ministry of External Affairs once again lashed out today a...
Wed, May 01, 2002
April 30, 2002 00:00 IST
The irony is enormous. Having disconnected the highly popular bus service to Pakistan, New Delhi is now trying to promote ties with Afghanis...
Tue, Apr 30, 2002
April 30, 2002 00:00 IST
What's in a demarche? That French word, diplomatese for an initiative taken by one country to another, has become so loaded in the backgroun...
Tue, Apr 30, 2002
April 28, 2002 00:00 IST
Having tiptoed around the Nazis when they walked all over Switzerland before the Second World War, Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss knew ...
Sun, Apr 28, 2002
April 25, 2002 00:00 IST
The diplomatic fallout of the Gujarat carnage has begun to reverberate in faraway London, with the British government speaking in the same b...
Thu, Apr 25, 2002
April 24, 2002 00:00 IST
At a time when political leaders and pygmies seem hardly different, Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga stood out today with her visi...
Wed, Apr 24, 2002
April 24, 2002 00:00 IST
The usually discreet Swiss decided to join the European Union in expressing concern about the situation in Gujarat, with the visiting Swiss ...
Wed, Apr 24, 2002
April 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Gujarat is becoming such a big issue worldwide that its even beginning to eclipse Jammu & Kashmir. What with the churning within the Europea...
Tue, Apr 23, 2002
April 16, 2002 00:00 IST
With what face is Prime Minister Vajpayee going to greet Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga when she arrives in the Capital next wee...
Tue, Apr 16, 2002
April 13, 2002 00:00 IST
The mounting horror of Gujarat is beginning to reverberate across the world, with the European Union now following the US in expressing shoc...
Sat, Apr 13, 2002
April 12, 2002 00:00 IST
When Prime Minister Vajpayee offered Cambodia one Indian judge earlier this week to set up a tribunal to try Khmer Rouge leaders, he may hav...
Fri, Apr 12, 2002
April 11, 2002 00:00 IST
India watched gravely, and without word, as the man who killed Rajiv Gandhi sought to redeem himself at a press conference this afternoon. E...
Thu, Apr 11, 2002
April 10, 2002 00:00 IST
India and the US are all set to put into place bilateral cooperation on nuclear issues, including on nuclear safety, when US Assistant Secre...
Wed, Apr 10, 2002
April 09, 2002 00:00 IST
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is extremely disturbed by the continuing targetting of Muslims in Gujarat, with officials admitting p...
Tue, Apr 09, 2002
April 06, 2002 00:00 IST
Miracles on the steel factory floor The toiling masses on the factory floor of Bao Steel no longer exist. China’s largest steel produce...
Sat, Apr 06, 2002
April 05, 2002 00:00 IST
It must be the ultimate illusion Shanghai unleashes on the unsuspecting foreign hordes. The 21st-century version of quietly packing an opium...
Fri, Apr 05, 2002
April 04, 2002 00:00 IST
Cinderella would have felt at home in Dalian. China’s northern ice-free port city is a pulsating metropolis, an entrepot to both the Ea...
Thu, Apr 04, 2002
April 03, 2002 00:00 IST
Beijing, Beijing It's been called a ‘‘moody city’’, a city of contrasts and contradictions, burnt to the ground by Gengh...
Wed, Apr 03, 2002
April 02, 2002 00:00 IST
Delhi to Beijing: before Lonely Planet, there was history The Himalayas never refused the Chinese or the Indian traveller from tramping acro...
Tue, Apr 02, 2002
April 02, 2002 00:00 IST
In the heart of China, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh took the podium to send a message to Beijing’s ‘‘all-weather&#...
Tue, Apr 02, 2002
February 03, 2001 00:00 IST
New Delhi, February 2: Pakistan’s chief executive General Pervez Musharraf called up Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpaye...
Sat, Feb 03, 2001
January 31, 2001 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 30: US President George W. Bush invoked the strength of an old friendship with India this evening in a telephone call with ...
Wed, Jan 31, 2001
January 22, 2001 00:00 IST
RIYADH, JANUARY 21: ``Cover your head!'' As we walked down a central street in Saudi Arabia's capital last morning, one of my journalist c...
Mon, Jan 22, 2001
January 20, 2001 00:00 IST
RIYADH, JANUARY 19: Anil, a young Indian male, was beheaded in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Dammam last week for carrying drugs into ...
Sat, Jan 20, 2001
January 16, 2001 00:00 IST
New Delhi, January 15: Chinese leader Li Peng pleasantly surprised the Indian leadership by departing from the usual script on bilateral r...
Tue, Jan 16, 2001


