India-US nuke deal
Pusillanimity leavened with righteous obduracy is far removed from ethical realpolitik, that is, enlightened self-interest cognizant of the collective vision, which should inform the unrelenting pursuit of national interest.....Full Story

Myanmar and India’s realpolitik conundrum
Strategic interests constrain India's reaction in balancing realpolitik with moralpolitik with regard to the situation in Myanmar.....Full Story

Presidential election:
Pakistan in a pickle
Musharraf has promised to shed uniform after getting reelected, but whether he’ll win is moot. His return is in our best interests.....Full Story

India-US nuclear deal: Jackals and Hydel
The Left and the BJP are engaged in an anti-US battle of socio-political perversity with the UPA government over a nuclear deal that can enhance India's energy capability and global standing.....Full Story

60th anniversary: time to revisit history
This is an occasion for re-examination of past times and values, without political colour, so that we can finally know who we are.....Full Story

India-US deal on track
Both nations have obligations and long-term benefits that will accrue from the realisation of the nuclear deal; but the characterisation of the deal to domestic constituencies needs to be accurate.....Full Story

Meltdown in South Asia
The second report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on April 6, delivers the dire warning that much of Southern Asia is in danger of a vast socioeconomic downturn for 250 million people if global warming persists at its current rate.....Full Story

Iraq war: US has to stay the course
While there is universal condemnation of US President Bush, one must look beyond his bumbling to the greater Jihadist danger.....Full Story

North Korean nuclear nettle: impasse breakthrough?
Despite the probable détente, Pyongyang retains its missile capability and a deterrent strategic profile, however rudimentar.....Full Story

India-US N-deal: positive augury
The nuclear deal, which is likely to be affirmed by the full US House of Representatives and the Senate, is the visible catalyst that will acknowledge and admit India into the global comity.....Full Story

The Nepali chrysalis: testing time for India
If Nepal fails to bring its Leftwing extremism into its fledgling democratic process, India could face the brunt of crossborder malcontents.....Full Story

Beyond the dissonance
President Hu's visit to the US was all about projecting China's image as a friendly giant panda. But this makeover of the dragon has implications for the whole world—Asia in particular—where the region's two other major powers, India and Japan, are affected.....Full Story

Mauled by the Maoists
The senseless violence can only be reined in by addressing its causes and responding with empathy rather than force.....Full Story

Bridging the nuclear divide
The Bush team has concluded that the more abiding strategic determinant is nuclear energy, and its role in fuelling prosperity.....Full Story

No breakthrough, no breakdown
One may aver that while there has been no breakthrough in Indo-Pak relations in the past two years, it is cause for some deep, albeit quiet, satisfaction that there has been no breakdown.....Full Story

Reverberations of democracy
The Iraqi elections may trigger latent aspirations in the entire Arab-Islamic world, and prudent ethics suggest that it is time India aided the rebuilding of Iraq's nascent democratic bodies.....Full Story

Let’s remain engaged
The India-Pakistan composite dialogue is being re-examined in the context of the recent terrorist-related serial bomb blasts in Delhi just before the change of government in J&K......Full Story

Managing Perceptions in Indo-US relations
It will be inadvisable and invalid to perceive India's relations with the US and Iran as an 'either-or' kind of zero sum game.....Full Story