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Nirupama Subramanian
Nirupama Subramanian is National Editor (Strategic Affairs). She writes on India’s foreign policy and national security issues.
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Explained Books: The complex India-Pak relationship, and ground realities to live withSubscriber Only
August 06, 2022 06:24 IST
The book has solid chapters on Pakistan's internal dynamics, including on the Army and the civil-military imbalance, the J&K question and the backchannel process, and the nuclear dimension in the India-Pakistan relationship.
Mon, Aug 08, 2022
India set for Agnipath, worry in Nepal over Gorkha recruitsSubscriber Only
August 04, 2022 01:37 IST
The first recruitments in Nepal under Agnipath scheme are scheduled to begin late August, and some websites are already showing dates for recruitment rallies.
Fri, Aug 26, 2022
Rival’s Brother held: Facing fight within, Maldives President arrives tomorrowSubscriber Only
July 31, 2022 01:46 IST
Earlier this year, Solih's candidate for the party chairmanship, Fayyaz Ismail, won over Nasheed's candidate Imthiyaz Fahmy with 58 per cent of the votes, showing that a majority in the MDP are on Solih's side.
Sun, Jul 31, 2022
Explained: The executions in MyanmarSubscriber Only
July 26, 2022 04:30 IST
The execution of four political prisoners, in defiance of international appeals, takes Myanmar back decades. What does the move mean for the rest of the world, including India, and their engagement with the junta?
Tue, Jul 26, 2022
Explained: Why has the Myanmar junta executed four dissidents?Subscriber Only
July 25, 2022 11:51 IST
Among those executed are a leader of the NLD who was close to Aung San Suu Kyi, and a veteran of Myanmar’s democracy movement. This is the first time in 25 years that the country has executed prisoners
Mon, Jul 25, 2022
Explained: Ranil and the RajapaksasSubscriber Only
July 22, 2022 04:00 IST
As President Ranil Wickremesinghe starts on the most difficult assignment of his long political career, his greatest challenge will be to convince Sri Lankans that he is not a proxy for the Rajapaksa clan.
Fri, Jul 22, 2022
Explained: Who is Ranil Wickremesinghe, old warhorse with a (tough) shot at making history as Sri Lanka’s President?Subscriber Only
July 20, 2022 15:47 IST
The five-time PM inspires more confidence in western capitals and in India than many other Sri Lankan politicians. But he will first need to convince his people that he is not a Rajapaksa proxy.
Wed, Jul 20, 2022
Explained: Who is Dullas Alahapperuma, the Rajapaksas’ critic who lost out in the race to be Sri Lanka President?Subscriber Only
July 20, 2022 14:18 IST
Dullas Alahapperuma was an old Rajapaksa family loyalist who turned dissident as the protests grew. Other than being a loyal follower of the Rajapaksas, Alahapperuma was never seen as leader material earlier
Wed, Jul 20, 2022
This Word Means | Aragalaya: Sinhalese for ‘struggle’, now synonymous with the movement that led to the fall of the government in Sri LankaSubscriber Only
July 20, 2022 05:00 IST
Aragalaya is being used widely to describe the daily gathering of people at Colombo's Galle Face Green that began with the demand that Gotabaya resign as President.
Wed, Jul 20, 2022
Nirupama Subramanian writes: Where do fleeing leaders head, and whySubscriber Only
July 17, 2022 04:01 IST
Nirupama Subramanian writes: Singapore is not the first country that comes to mind as a safe haven for political leaders seeking exile. Unlike the UAE, which welcomed Ghani on “humanitarian grounds”, Singapore put out a terse statement as Rajapaksa landed, as if to convey its discomfort.
Sun, Jul 17, 2022
Journalist BJP cited to target Hamid Ansari known in Pakistan as conspiracy peddlerSubscriber Only
July 15, 2022 04:58 IST
Karachi-based Nusrat Mirza, who has written columns in Nawa-i-Waqt and Jang newspapers and now hosts a programme on Such TV, is known in the Pakistan media fraternity as a “name dropper” and “self-projector”.
Fri, Jul 15, 2022
Explained: Why did Gotabaya Rajapaksa choose to flee to the Maldives?Subscriber Only
July 13, 2022 16:47 IST
The Rajapaksa family is said to be close to Mohamed Nasheed, whose party, the MDP, is in power in the Maldives.
Thu, Jul 14, 2022
Explained: Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka, but he still remains its President. Here is how the Constitution’s Article 37.1 worksSubscriber Only
July 13, 2022 15:41 IST
Under Article 40, Ranil Wickremesinghe would have been President only until July 20, when Parliament would elect the new person in the post. But now he is acting President indefinitely, as Article 37.1 does not prescribe any time limit.
Thu, Jul 14, 2022
Explained: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees, what happens in Sri Lanka now?Subscriber Only
July 13, 2022 06:30 IST
This is the second time in 44 years of Sri Lanka's executive presidency that the office will fall vacant midstream. The first time was when Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated by the LTTE in 1993. The PM at the time, Dingiri Bandara Wijetunga, became acting President then.
Wed, Jul 13, 2022
Nirupama Subramanian writes: Why new Sri Lanka needs a Tamil leaderSubscriber Only
July 12, 2022 18:43 IST
Nirupama Subramanian writes: As Sri Lanka tries to find a leadership capable of pulling it out of its economic meltdown, choosing a Tamil candidate to lead the nation, a leader who can rise above the ethnic and communal divide, would be the step most commensurate with the enormity of the events of July 9.
Sat, Jul 16, 2022
Explained: Sri Lanka President, PM missing but not resigned yet; what happens now?Subscriber Only
July 11, 2022 20:08 IST
Wickremesinghe and Rajapaksa may be biding their time due to the rules of succession in the Sri Lankan constitution.
Tue, Jul 12, 2022
Amarnath stream flooded last year too, yet tents set up at same spotSubscriber Only
July 11, 2022 04:20 IST
Yet, as The Indian Express has reported, this year, the tents for pilgrims were set up on the flood channel, also known as the dry river bed. This was done to accommodate as many people as possible at a time. A langar was also permitted to operate from this dry river bed.
Mon, Jul 11, 2022
Explained: The story of the rise and fall of Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa familySubscriber Only
July 10, 2022 17:05 IST
Mahinda, Gotabaya, and the others are part of a tenacious political dynasty that is perhaps South Asia's biggest and perhaps its most brazenly nepotisitic.
Mon, Jul 11, 2022
Explained: What is significant about July 13, the date Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced for his resignation?Subscriber Only
July 10, 2022 13:49 IST
Why did Gotabaya choose that date, which was on July 9 still four days away, even though it had become clear as daylight that he could no longer continue in office?
Mon, Jul 11, 2022
Explained: Political vacuum, missing Sri Lankan Govt and a restive streetSubscriber Only
July 10, 2022 03:20 IST
Sri Lanka protests: Both, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, are missing and left with no political leverage or legitimacy to call for calm and peace even from the safety of their hiding places, Colombo is now effectively without a government.
Tue, Jul 12, 2022
Shinzo Abe advocated closer India-Japan ties, sought to move beyond Tokyo’s post-war pacifist worldviewSubscriber Only
July 08, 2022 20:00 IST
Nirupama Subramanian writes: Shinzo Abe was driven by the mission to help Japan find its true identity, and return it to its pre-World War II status, which he said was not to revive Japanese militarism
Sat, Jul 09, 2022
Two Tamil men from Manipur found dead in MyanmarSubscriber Only
July 07, 2022 04:10 IST
The two Moreh town residents, P Mohan, 27, and M Iyarnar, 28, had crossed over into Myanmar’s Tamu on Tuesday morning. According to the Moreh Tamil Sangam secretary, they had gone to meet a friend.
Thu, Jul 07, 2022
‘Best foreign secretary that India never had’, led back-channel talks with PakSubscriber Only
July 02, 2022 01:59 IST
As then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Special Envoy to Pakistan, Lambah held discreet behind-the-scene talks with his counterpart Tariq Aziz, appointed for the back-channel process by then military ruler General Parvez Musharraf.
Sat, Jul 02, 2022
Former diplomat Satinder Lambah, who led backchannel talks between India and Pakistan, passes awaySubscriber Only
July 01, 2022 09:39 IST
As Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Special Envoy to Pakistan, Lambah held secret talks with his counterpart Tariq Aziz, who had been appointed by Pakistan’s then military ruler General Parvez Musharraf.
Fri, Jul 01, 2022
Udaipur killers and Da’wat-e-Islami: the group, its ideology and its growthSubscriber Only
June 29, 2022 20:31 IST
The Rajasthan police have linked one of the two who killed a tailor in Udaipur to the Da’wat-e-Islami. The group in India, based in Mumbai, is a breakaway Sunni group and has no links to the DeI Pakistan.
Fri, Jul 01, 2022Journalism of Courage
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