An open letter to Prime Minister Modi: 21-day lockdown is not enough

Mr Prime Minister,  The Indian state would be making a fatal mistake if it chooses to sit on its haunches just because a 21-day lockdown is in force from Wednesday. ...

Corona Virus: India enters the stretch when the wheels could come off

India stood as one behind its prime minister Narendra Modi’s call to “isolate” itself on Sunday but there is a fear that the deadly Corona Virus could...

Decoding the anatomy of Indo-US ties: Friends yes, choir-boy no

India is refusing to be a choir-boy of the United States which is a dichotomy given the two nations have never been closer on economic and defence matters than now in...

Who’s US to tell India what weapons it must buy for its’ own defence?

I was seven when the United States sent its nuclear-powered Seventh Fleet to Bay of Bengal to scare India during the 1971 Indo-Pak War. Nearly half a century on,...

Lessons to learn from the coup in Bolivia

(A brilliant piece in Moon of Alabama is reproduced here with gratitude as it holds lessons for India’s democracy and gives the readers an insight why the EVM...

Terror on top of mind of both Modi and Xi

How one would love to be a fly on the wall when Indian prime minister Narendra Modi sits down with Chinese premier Xi Jinping for an informal one-to-one meeting in...

United Nations: Is it still relevant for the future?

The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly is upon us So is a new international “political season.”