Sanjaya Baru
The writer is director for geoeconomics and strategy, International Institute for Strategic Studies, honorary senior fellow, Centre for Policy Research, and former media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Articles By Sanjaya Baru
Economy, media, message
Government needs a shared understanding and an effective and credible spokesperson on economic policy
The man who lived in interesting times
Despite the controversies it has generated, Karan Thapar’s book offers a fine glimpse into his career and personal life and the bond of trust that once existed between the media and those in power
Don’t destroy my university
Ideological intolerance and a bureaucratic strait-jacket are damaging JNU. Don’t let a mediocre leadership denigrate one of our finest institutions.
Mind games at Doklam
India is no Philippines. In the Philippines, China managed to declare victory by convincing President Rodrigo Duterte that friendship with China is a better bet than friendship with the United States. China subdued Philippines without fighting.
Unease of doing business
Judicial intervention in economic activities hurts livelihoods. A developing country can ill-afford such activism
Developmental Hindutva
Is the term an oxymoron? Is it possible to balance the two in a way that is reassuring to a majority of people?
Misreading the new
The rise of BJP, the decline of Congress, demand fresh ways of seeing.
Family politics playbook
Voter has a right to know how a party she has voted for will manage leadership transition in the family.
An Indo-Pak Cold War
India will have to devise and pursue the logic of a long period of bilateral disengagement.
A 21st century Indian city
Amaravati offers Chandrababu Naidu an opportunity to redefine his politics and policies
India’s fast power
Modi government is enunciating a doctrine of high-speed diplomacy.
Modi’s red lines
From Pakistan to Japan, China to US, he will be tested on ability to stick to them.
The real threat to WTO
...isn't India. It is miscast in the role of spoiler.
Compromise is no crime
AAP must know that politics is the art of the possible,more so in the coalition era.
Bracing for Bali
India should worry about the multilateral trading system,not food subsidies.
Love from Tokyo
The Emperor and Empress return to Delhi after 30 years to open a new chapter in ties.
The Singh doctrine
PM has left a clear stamp on foreign policy,even if UPA2 let him down.
No zero-sum games
Both India and China would be better off learning to cooperate while competing.
The inheritor as insurgent
Why Rahul Gandhi's outburst against the government strains credibility.
The return of Russia
The Syria crisis has brought Russia back to global centrestage.
