Sanjaya Baru
The writer is Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.
Articles By Sanjaya Baru
Trump, trade and trust
US president needs to be convinced that helping India’s economic rise will be in the US’s interests in the long run
By destabilising regions that supply oil and gas, US is keeping Rising Asia off-balance
If President Trump is insensitive to India’s concerns, New Delhi will have to seriously rethink its foreign policy options since sustaining high economic growth with low inflation is a fundamental developmental priority and a key strategic objective.
Listing of Masood Azhar can open a new phase in India-China relations
Radical Islam keeps raising its head in newer places across Asia, as it recently did in Sri Lanka, and now poses as much a challenge to China’s rise as it does to India’s. Both countries must work together towards a win-win strategy on over-powering it.
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.
