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Pappi-jhappi diplomacy from Gujral to Manmohan
22 May 2013 9:31 AMIt has become fashionable to scoff at bonhomie between the two Punjabs as pappi-jhappi diplomacy (a Punjabi expression for kissing and hugging). This...
NEO Modi-philes: from Jholla to briefcase
17 April 2013 12:17 AMNarendra Modi has won many admirers in corporate India, and the media for his style of governance. Both believe, that Gujarat’s exceptional growth...
The unending Iran impasse
22 March 2013 11:09 PMIn his book titled, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate, Robert D Kaplan states, ‘Iran...
India between hill and gulf
11 Jan 2013 10:55 PMThe appointment of two experienced people, by President Obama, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, as US Secretary of State and Secretary of Defence...
A gentleman among politicians
3 Dec 2012 11:40 PMFormer Prime Minister, Inder Kumar Gujral, who died of a serious chest infection at the age of 92 served in many capacities. His prominent...
Redefining Indian secularism
6 Nov 2012 11:21 PMPerhaps no term has been as used, misused and abused in Indian politics in the last decade and a half as ‘secularism’. When the word was included in...
No unity in foreign policy in India
31 Oct 2012 9:32 PMThe recent US presidential debates clearly brought to the fore the fact that presidential hopefuls in that country give immense importance to foreign...
Singh’s swan song marred by corruption
17 Oct 2012 11:05 PMIn the immediate aftermath of the 2009 election results, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his first press appearance was quick to credit United...
Time for the BJP to get over its Manmohan fixation
5 Oct 2012 9:56 PMIndia’s main opposition party the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] which until a few weeks back was going hammer and tongs against the United Progressive...
The way Pakistan is heading
26 Sept 2012 10:07 PMWith anti-US sentiment rampant in Pakistan, the question on everyone’s mind, in both South Asia and outside, is which country is Pakistan attracted...