C. Raja Mohan holds the Korea Chair at the Council for Strategic and Defence Research, Delhi and is a contributing editor on international affairs for The Indian Express.
February 22,2005 00:00:00 AM
As India enters talks with the United States today on acquiring Patriot missiles, it needs clarity on the elements that form an effective st...
Tue, Feb 22, 2005February 17,2005 01:58:45 AM
Having pulled off a diplomatic coup on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh has a few more big idea...
Thu, Feb 17, 2005February 15,2005 01:26:40 AM
As he heads to Islamabad tomorrow to revive the stalled peace process, External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh might want to consider redeemi...
Tue, Feb 15, 2005February 14,2005 01:56:26 AM
Unapologetic about its controversial decision to pull out of the South Asian summit in Dhaka earlier this month, the Foreign Office plans to...
Mon, Feb 14, 2005February 08,2005 00:00:00 AM
The sharp criticism directed at India after its decision to pull out of the South Asian summit in Dhaka last week may be less important than...
Tue, Feb 08, 2005February 07,2005 01:33:50 AM
The announcement in the Nepali media last week that a bus service will soon be launched between Kathmandu and Lhasa was not news to South Bl...
Mon, Feb 07, 2005February 02,2005 00:00:00 AM
Having reacted sharply against King Gyanendra’s coup in Kathmandu today, the Manmohan Singh government faces a huge challenge in matchi...
Wed, Feb 02, 2005January 31,2005 01:41:20 AM
With Iraq’s first general elections in over half a century set to create a constituent Assembly and a transitional government, India mi...
Mon, Jan 31, 2005January 27,2005 01:23:00 AM
As Jigme Singye Wangchuk, the King of Bhutan, wraps up his visit to India, the Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade and his hosts will soo...
Thu, Jan 27, 2005January 25,2005 00:00:00 AM
As the nation celebrates the 55th anniversary of the Republic, the external environment has never been as favourable to independent India as...
Tue, Jan 25, 2005January 20,2005 00:00:00 AM
As the fragile peace process in the subcontinent begins to fray at the edges, Condoleezza Rice, the top diplomat in the Second Bush Administ...
Thu, Jan 20, 2005January 18,2005 01:47:38 AM
India is eager to get import energy through Bangladesh. But will New Delhi give economic concessions in return? That’s the big question...
Tue, Jan 18, 2005January 11,2005 00:00:00 AM
The quality of mercy, Shakespeare wrote, is not strained. It is twice blessed. He went on: “It blesseth him that gives, and him that ta...
Tue, Jan 11, 2005January 11,2005 00:00:00 AM
Reinforcing the message that it is fully capable of dealing with the domestic consequences of the tsunami on its own, India politely turned ...
Tue, Jan 11, 2005January 07,2005 01:05:37 AM
The appointment of M K Narayanan as the interim National Security Adviser brings the recent story of India’s national security manageme...
Fri, Jan 07, 2005January 04,2005 01:57:49 AM
Ambling up to him at a gathering in the Capital last night, one quickly sensed that National Security Adviser J.N. Dixit was about to get in...
Tue, Jan 04, 2005January 03,2005 01:36:17 AM
Besides drawing legions of armed forces and triggering high-profile global diplomacy, the tsunami strike in the Indian Ocean has reinforced ...
Mon, Jan 03, 2005December 31,2004 02:21:55 AM
Responding to the extraordinary humanitarian challenge arising from Sunday’s tsunami strike, India and the United States have begun to ...
Fri, Dec 31, 2004December 30,2004 02:34:59 AM
That the Indian Navy could join the relief operations in Sri Lanka that bore the brunt of the tsunami strike is a reflection of the positive...
Thu, Dec 30, 2004December 29,2004 01:50:09 AM
AS India considers long-term options on disaster management, in the wake of the terrible tsunami strike, one major imperative stands out...
Wed, Dec 29, 2004December 28,2004 02:32:50 AM
The credit that former prime minister A.B. Vajpayee reportedly gave this week to his predecessor P.V. Narasimha Rao for building India’...
Tue, Dec 28, 2004December 28,2004 00:00:00 AM
As he packs his bags for the first foreign policy venture in the new year — the annual summit of the South Asian nations in Dhaka —...
Tue, Dec 28, 2004December 21,2004 01:55:23 AM
China’s massive programme to build roads all along the border in Tibet and into the sub-continent has finally woken up India and Bhutan...
Tue, Dec 21, 2004December 15,2004 02:03:27 AM
Dispelling political concerns all around and overcoming many procedural difficulties, a rare conversation among Indians, Pakistanis and Kash...
Wed, Dec 15, 2004December 14,2004 00:00:00 AM
As India and Pakistan start talks on nuclear and conventional military confidence-building measures this week in Islamabad, part of the atte...
Tue, Dec 14, 2004