Sanjaya Baru
The writer is Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.
Wed, Dec 04, 2019
In 1993, the then finance minister, Manmohan Singh, was publicly dismissive of the concern Bajaj and friends articulated about the threat to domestic business from external economic liberalisation.
Fri, Nov 15, 2019
Rising India narrative is suffering due to re-hyphenation with Pakistan, slowing growth, retreat from RCEP, Trumpism.
Wed, Oct 23, 2019
What is not recognised is that it is the business of media to reach out to anyone who wishes to seek them out. Lend an ear, but be professional in what and how you report.
Mon, Oct 14, 2019
Given Xi’s 100-year perspective, both countries have to learn to live with year-to-year bumps while journeying together towards a new Asian Century.
Tue, Aug 27, 2019
Across Asia, focus is turning to multiple geopolitical quarrels. Western powers are back in play, arbitrating.
Wed, Aug 07, 2019
A soft solution to the Kashmir dispute has had no takers in India and Pakistan since 2014. The changing global environment may have influenced New Delhi to opt for a hard solution
Tue, Jul 09, 2019
Resisting the temptation to print money and spend one’s way to growth, the finance minister has opted for incentivising private investment and borrowing abroad.
Fri, Jun 28, 2019
G-20 meets in the midst of a crisis in world trade. It must not let US-China bilateral overshadow the summit
Tue, Jun 04, 2019
US president needs to be convinced that helping India’s economic rise will be in the US’s interests in the long run
Sat, May 18, 2019
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.
Fri, May 03, 2019
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.
Wed, Oct 17, 2018
Government needs a shared understanding and an effective and credible spokesperson on economic policy
Sat, Aug 25, 2018
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
Tue, Aug 07, 2018
Ideological intolerance and a bureaucratic strait-jacket are damaging JNU. Don’t let a mediocre leadership denigrate one of our finest institutions.
Fri, Aug 11, 2017
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.
Fri, Jun 09, 2017
Judicial intervention in economic activities hurts livelihoods. A developing country can ill-afford such activism
Fri, Apr 14, 2017
Is the term an oxymoron? Is it possible to balance the two in a way that is reassuring to a majority of people?
Wed, Mar 15, 2017
The rise of BJP, the decline of Congress, demand fresh ways of seeing.
Tue, Oct 25, 2016
Voter has a right to know how a party she has voted for will manage leadership transition in the family.
Thu, Oct 06, 2016
India will have to devise and pursue the logic of a long period of bilateral disengagement.