The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

August 04, 2004 00:00 IST
If you’re wondering why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanded that New Delhi would take ‘‘another look’’ at the fr...
Wed, Aug 04, 2004
August 03, 2004 02:27 IST
The Centre may have ruled out handing over the house in which Jinnah lived in Mumbai to Pakistan, but it is likely to propose a series of in...
Tue, Aug 03, 2004
July 31, 2004 00:00 IST
The stunning Buddha murals on the courtyard walls of the 8th-century Samye monastery in the heart of Tibet stop you in your tracks. But even...
Sat, Jul 31, 2004
July 29, 2004 00:00 IST
The world can be divided into those who’ve visited the Samye monastery in the heart of Tibet, and those who passed it by either out of ...
Thu, Jul 29, 2004
July 26, 2004 02:41 IST
Look as hard as you like in Lhasa, but you won’t find a photo or even a remote likeness of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s...
Mon, Jul 26, 2004
July 25, 2004 01:32 IST
In a dispute that has spanned five decades and had its share of false dawns, India and China are once again moving in the direction of a maj...
Sun, Jul 25, 2004
July 22, 2004 00:00 IST
As the SAARC Foreign Ministers met in Pakistan on Tuesday, China’s People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the nation that sells a few m...
Thu, Jul 22, 2004
July 21, 2004 01:35 IST
As India and China prepare to hold their crucial, third round of talks between the two politically-appointed Special Representatives on the ...
Wed, Jul 21, 2004
July 19, 2004 00:00 IST
The exiled Tibetan diaspora is at a delicate moment in its 45-year-old history, teetering on the cusp of compromise and defiance, as it cont...
Mon, Jul 19, 2004
July 18, 2004 00:00 IST
A FEW months after the Jaish-e-Mohammed sponsored attacks on Parliament on December 13, 2001, an angry New Delhi decided it was time to tic...
Sun, Jul 18, 2004
July 15, 2004 02:40 IST
US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said today that ‘‘it is not acceptable’’ that people continue to die of mi...
Thu, Jul 15, 2004
July 14, 2004 02:25 IST
Seeking to calm the ripples on the reported ‘‘strip-search’’ of former Defence Minister George Fernandes at a US airport...
Wed, Jul 14, 2004
July 14, 2004 00:00 IST
India's premier defence research and analysis institute, the IDSA, is in the news again—unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. On Ju...
Wed, Jul 14, 2004
July 07, 2004 00:00 IST
Strobe Talbott, the redoubtable Russia hand in the Clinton administration who as his deputy secretary of state engaged in a ‘‘stra...
Wed, Jul 07, 2004
July 06, 2004 02:13 IST
India and the US are believed to be working out modalities to circumvent the impasse over transfer of high-technology items to New Delhi. Th...
Tue, Jul 06, 2004
July 04, 2004 00:00 IST
PRESSED by liberal-minded journalists to tell the truth about his CIA antecedents, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of Iraq recently acknowledged ...
Sun, Jul 04, 2004
July 01, 2004 00:00 IST
The 14th Dalai Lama, also called Tenzing Gyatso, is likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week, keeping up his tradition of gett...
Thu, Jul 01, 2004
June 29, 2004 01:10 IST
The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan concluded their first dialogue today in six years with a ‘‘detailed exchange of view...
Tue, Jun 29, 2004
June 28, 2004 01:32 IST
India and Pakistan today got down to the business of discussing peace, security and a slew of confidence-building measures in Kashmir and ou...
Mon, Jun 28, 2004
June 25, 2004 01:37 IST
Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan are likely to get down this weekend to a comprehensive review of the agenda on Kashmir, peace and ...
Fri, Jun 25, 2004
June 24, 2004 01:55 IST
India will not return Jinnah House, the house in which Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, lived till Partition in Mumbai, but wil...
Thu, Jun 24, 2004
June 24, 2004 01:43 IST
China is slowly opening its doors to visits by senior Tibetan officials, only for the third time in the last 20 years, signalling a softer a...
Thu, Jun 24, 2004
June 23, 2004 00:00 IST
As India and the US celebrate a space summit between NASA and ISRO in Bangalore this week, the emphasis on both sides has been to focus on t...
Wed, Jun 23, 2004
June 22, 2004 00:00 IST
Ahead of the first Foreign Secretary-level dialogue in six years between India and Pakistan later this week, External Affairs minister K Nat...
Tue, Jun 22, 2004
June 21, 2004 00:00 IST
Exactly six years after they conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests, India and Pakistan today successfully concluded their first official-level...
Mon, Jun 21, 2004



