INI9 – The politics of moving beyond the conflict in Jammu & Kashmir
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There’s more to the Mumbai terror alert than meets the eye Yesterday, reports in the media indicated that a terror alert had been sounded in Mumbai and across many Indian airports: five terrorists of...
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Strategic proxies have disproportionate negotiating power This month’s Asian Balance argues that China is indeed being ‘bullied’ by the Philippines. Such a statement is likely to cause many people to...
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The implications of Barack Obama’s policy shift in Afghanistan and Pakistan Barack Obama has executed a very smart policy change—he has effectively dehyphenated Af-Pak by extricating the United States...
View ArticleTAPI’s confused objectives, risky implications
India should not invest in making itself vulnerable to geopolitical blackmail Kabir Taneja quotes me in an article in the Sunday Guardian on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline...
View ArticleReturn and reforms
Will Manmohan Singh’s return to the finance ministry result in some reforms? Pranab Mukherjee, an over-rated, over-respected and over-portfolioed cabinet minister presided over the finance ministry at...
View ArticleThe migration problem unpacked
Without a pragmatic approach to migration, instability will only increase. The surge in communal clashes in parts of Assam—between Bodos and Muslim migrants—earlier this month was serious enough to...
View ArticleOn the government’s decision to block some social media content
On free speech and extraordinary circumstances Here’s a segment from yesterday’s NDTV’s Nine ‘o Clock News You can catch the entire programme here. For more details and an analysis of the blocked...
View ArticleCyber security to Cyber strategy
Plans and implementation India’s National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) has announced a roadmap of action on the cyber security front, involving partnership with the private sector. (See the...
View ArticleA new system is not the answer
The best way to transform India is by making the system work as it should In a post on his very active Facebook page, Ashwin Mahesh—public policy activist, scientist and politician, all rolled into...
View ArticleThe Waheed regime’s games
New Delhi must punish Maldives’ Waheed regime, but without playing into its hands Mohammed Waheed Hassan’s regime seized power through dubious means. It now seeks to acquire domestic popularity and...
View ArticleIn defence of lobbying
The lobbying industry must be allowed to function transparently within the ambit of the law. This is an unedited draft of today’s column in Business Standard. A famous Indian politician was searching...
View ArticleLeave it at the tactical
Media-fuelled public outrage must not determine New Delhi’s strategy on the tensions along the Line of Control Success or failure in a contest between two states is not measured by merely by the...
View ArticleDiplomacy, politics, power and norms in the neighbourhood
Can New Delhi shape and use a normative consensus? In today’s Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta carries forward the debate on neighbourhood policy that I attempted to initiate last week through the...
View ArticleThe wages of distrust
Tackling a Mahatma Grade Problem In a discussion at Takshashila’s Bangalore centre several months ago on what might be India’s biggest problems, I nominated “lack of social trust” as one of the...
View ArticleWhat Karzai seeks from India
How India’s Afghanistan policy might shape up Suryatapa Bhattarcharya sought my views on Hamid Karzai’s visit to India for his report that appears in today’s edition of The National. Here is the full...
View ArticleExplica a ABC el analista indio
Quoted in the Spanish Jaime León, a reporter for the Spanish daily ABC, quotes me in his report on India-China relations. Here’s my opinion in Spanish. «Los dirigentes chinos están preocupados por la...
View ArticleWhat should India do about US snooping?
How do you solve a problem like Maria? According to reports in The Guardian—based on information illegally divulged by NSA contractor Edward Snowden—we know that India is among the top ten countries...
View ArticleWhy the President of India must reject the Food Security ordinance
President Pranab Mukherjee must reject the Union Cabinet’s unjustified ordinance The UPA government’s Food Security Bill (brief) is likely to cause severe damage to the Indian economy, while saddling...
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