India and other members of the G-33 grouping have opposed a new US proposal for a permanent solution to the factious issue of food stockholding for...

As I walked towards the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), a melancholic woman stopped me and asked: “Tu es Charlie (Are you Charlie)?”,...

How did you choose the stories in ‘A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: Extraordinary Short Stories from the 19th Century to the Present’?As I have said...

Vinod Rai was the 11th comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India from January 2008 till May 2013. His tenure was ridden with controversies as he...

If artifice is intrinsic to diplomacy, the agenda of the meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 August...

It would be naive to reduce the Modi-Kerry meeting to a trade facilitation agreement (TFA) success/failure talk. The build-up to the meeting was as...

Ugandan foreign minister Sam Kutesa said at the end of his five-day trip with a delegation of ministers in New Delhi on Wednesday (30 July). Kutesa...

On 5 July, the special AI-160 flight carrying 46 Indian nurses and 137 other Indians from strife-torn Iraq to Kochi had to make an unscheduled stop at...

As India goes into a tizzy with the arrival of achchhe din, the lexicon of the big is asserting itself with renewed vigour. ‘Good times’, an obvious...

Robert D Blackwill, former US ambassador to India (2001-2003), in his physical impression can be somewhat deceptive. When sitting he appears to be...

‘Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others...