Trump-Bibi ‘win-win’ alliance may bring the one-state solution to its political dissolution
One has to give credit to the Israeli cunning and doggedness which have enabled it to maintain a vice-like grip...
Truth falls casualty to free world’s war
Various semi-official sources expressed the conviction that both the alleged gas attack in Ghouta, Syria and the intensely publicised ‘Skripal...
Is the next World War coming closer?
Things have heated up, from Syria to the UK, in the last weeks, even as there is a lull in...
Rapprochement between two Koreas isolates US
In the Korean peninsula, the situation is no less confusing. The official support for US-backed sanctions from China and Russia...
Trump and the Karma of the United States
In an article for this newspaper published on 3 December 2016, I had noted that it was well nigh impossible...
Lights, shadows and secrets of the United States
In my new book, A Shining City on a Hill: Novus Ordo Seclorum (Har-Anand, 2018), I retrace a process of...
Book Review: A book that goes on a quest of Indraprastha’s legacy
Indraprastha Revisited Edited by Neera Misra and Rajesh Lall Published by B.R. Publishing Corporation Since the days of the Mahabharata,...
Iran is cat and Saudis mice in West Asian muddle
In her long history, Iran has never given up the claim to regional pre-eminence, inherited from the Achaemenid and Sassanid...
Middle East on tenterhooks as a prince goes on a rampage
During my last visit to Lebanon in last September, I was told that the long troubled country had entered a...
France’s economic prospects grim, even as EU flounders
A few-weeks-long stay in France only confirms the impression that the European Union is in suspense and is sinking into...
Liberals cannot win war against the Right with the help of jihadi ideologues
Given the apparent failure of the “multi-cultural” theories promoted by the leftists, who want to see Muslim radicals as their...
Terrorism is undermining western societies
During recent travels in Europe I have noticed the growing ideological conflicts between establishment figures and their supporters on the...
US domestic political conflict fans new cold world war
Back in the late 1980s, when I lived in the United States, during one of my occasional visits to New...
Macron’s inexperience may get the better of him
In last June, the elite Cercle de l’Union Interalliee, next to the Elysee Palace in France, celebrated its centenary with...
Citizen Trump goes to West Asia
What a contrast between Barack Obama’s last visit to Saudi Arabia, when none of the leading members of the government...
India must take advantage of global economic turmoil
Many expert observers are convinced that the global economic situation is unsustainable and heading towards a debacle. The USA is...
Macron may win, but stability will be a casualty
In the 2017 presidential election in France, the choice seems easy. On one side, a pro-EU millionaire former investment banker...
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Reprisal theatrics, false flag attacks in Syria
American Presidents often conduct military operations more for their domestic electorates than against external enemies. The recent Tomahawk missile volley...
Time to revive an Indic commonwealth
There is a trend, in various parts of the world to form international associations based on common civilisational roots. Recently...
Trump’s biggest test will be reforming the financial system
Amidst the furore generated by the new American President’s controversial decisions or policy statements, the situation on the economic front...
Left wing liberalism tries to rule by manufacturing consent
A few years ago at an annual session of the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilisations, Professor Craig Calhoun, then director...
A death struggle is going on at the heart of American power
Watching Donald Trump’s first press conference as President Elect the other day, I was reminded of my meetings in the...
Russia is reborn under Putin
In the honey-hued, timber-panelled opera hall of Saint Petersburg’s new Marinsky Opera House, the orchestra performed with metronomic precision and...
Are we living through a revolution or a reaction?
There are widely differing verdicts on what the future US regime will be like: hardline, moderate, protectionist, business oriented, against...
