Rising Sun Conclave Marks Milestone in India-Japan Relations

‘The Rising Sun Conclave’ unfolded as the...

BSP goes slow on naming candidates as support shrinks

Mayawati may want to consider some Dalit...

BJP Banking on six new faces in Delhi

BJP’s changing six of seven sitting MPs...

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Henry Higgins was wrong about women

All 365 days in the year ought to be International Women’s Days. “My Fair Lady” was a film that continues to pique viewer interest through...

PRC-GHQ role in US defeat in Afghanistan

The manner in which the PLA-GHQ Rawalpindi alliance sabotaged the US-led war against terror in Afghanistan has never been documented, at least in public. On...

Move over Davos, it is now Raisina’s turn

In an era where the Atlantic has clearly given way to the Indo-Pacific, it is only fitting that the Davos summit has given way...

Uniform Civil Code must in a Secular Democracy

Overall, a Uniform Civil Code promotes equal treatment under the law to all. Given the imminence of the Lok Sabha polls, it is to be...

Genuine democracy alone can save Pakistan

Unless Pakistan becomes a democracy accountable not to the military but to the people, the country has no future. It is difficult if not impossible...

Wikipedia must not change into Wokepedia

In December 2023, almost all of the information in Wikipedia on the present writer was removed, apparently by a Wikipedia editor of Indian origin...

Zelenskyy demands that NATO attack Russia

It was clear from the cheering and the Q&A that followed Zelenskyy’s speech at Davos that it is less economic growth than regime change...

Don’t repeat the 1930s history in the 2020s

The Eurasia Group has avoided calling either Xi or the PRC in any way ‘dangerous’ but regards a fighter for democracy as ‘dangerous’. Recently, a...

India’s doctors do the whole world proud

It was during the beginning of the 1990s that the image of India began to change in the US and in the other English-speaking...

India-Russia trade ties need a civilian focus

2024 needs to witness Moscow freeing itself from the chokehold of Beijing by increasing economic involvement with India. During the visit to Moscow of External...

Biden falls while Trump rises in US polls

Should Joe Biden fail in his bid to win a second term in the White House, Attorney General of the United States Merrick Garland...

MPs should follow Sansad Dharma

Among the reasons why the NDA under Atal Behari Vajpayee won in the 1999 polls caused by the withdrawal of support by the AIADMK...

Supreme Court decision on Article 370 welcome

Led by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India affirmed the legality of the abrogation of Article 370...

Biden risks losing his job over Ukraine

Every dollar that Biden spends on keeping Ukraine in a futile fight is seen by many of his voters as a dollar less for...

Use sanctions to dismantle Hamas

Searching for members of the military wing of Hamas by entering streets and houses throughout Gaza may be an impossible objective. Not to mention...

Gaza war: Two states are better than one

A halt needs to be called out to both Deniers of Israel and Deniers of Palestine, something that has long been obvious to a...

Washington must keep its commitments to Delhi

It is not unknown even for the best intelligence agencies in the world to have been victims of penetration by hostile countries. The USSR...

India’s history and culture unite and empower

The ancient wisdom of India is not the exclusive right of the people of only a single country to know, but ought to be...

Gaza’s welcome humanitarian pause

It was a welcome move by Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree to a four-day pause in the fighting so as to get in exchange...

Xi-Biden Summit ends up as Lose-Lose for both

San Francisco was just another link in a long chain of events that are resulting in a multiplying of frictions between Beijing and Washington. CCP...

‘Alternative to BJP’ faces internal hurdles

State polls are entirely different from a national poll, and cannot be compared to the semi-finals in the way earlier contests are in some...

Trudeau tries to shift the blame

Canada is a country blessed not just with an impressive but a largely versatile population. The country is marked by a respect for diversity,...

Allow humanitarian aid to Gaza

Judging by the shock and the clearly improvised response to the 7 October terror attack that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers manifested,...

Cases against him make Trump the Republican favourite

The targeting of Trump may be happening without any instigation by Biden, but very few US voters will believe in such a presumption of...

India and West Asia are natural partners

Only with the end of the terror machine can peace come to the whole of Palestine. Among the methods of protection that fringe groups disseminating...

Innovative India must not return to Licence Raj

At the start of the 1990s, the Washington Post ran a front-page story on a little-known city named Bangalore that was showing promise of...

Why Hamas is backed by its ‘Superpower Sponsor’

Given that there are only two superpowers presently, the PRC and the US, there are no prizes for guessing which country the Superpower Sponsor...

Qatar needs to change its stance

Just as the conflict between Israel and Hamas is about to enter its third week, a court in Qatar has sentenced to death by...

Applying equality of treatment for civil unions

In the philosophy of Sanatan Dharma, multiple pathways exist towards spiritual progress. In the matter of civil unions as well, following an inclusivist path...

PM Modi steers through the Gaza war

Ever since he led the BJP towards winning a second term in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been confronting...

‘Ceasefire in Gaza possible only after terror ceases’

The elimination of the Hamas terror factory in Gaza would liberate the people living there so that they can have a future much better...

Hamas has obstructed a peaceful, prosperous Gaza

Hamas has once again shown that the battle between itself and Israel is existential. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel had a wake-up call on...

Stop creating a ‘Trudeaustan’, Justin

Numerous supporters of Hamas who have been welcomed into Canada during the period when Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister of the country have...

Abe and Modi energised Bharat-Nippon alliance

If the Indo-Pacific is to be free of expansionism whether creeping or galloping, Tokyo and Delhi need to work ever closer together. In different ways,...

Not all is well in Xi Jinping’s PRC

The following has been extracted from the book ‘Cold War 2.0: Illusion versus Reality’. NEW DELHI While the CPC speaks often of the divergences between itself...

Ukraine becomes a liability for the West

In a remarkable coincidence, media outlets across both sides of the Atlantic that constantly advertise their “independence”, took a visibly similar line on the...

Despite Trudeau, Canada is India’s natural partner

Much of what Prime Minister Trudeau has been doing is indefensible, but it needs never to be forgotten that one Trudeau, even a Prime...

Canada is a natural ally of India

Boswell writes of Samuel Johnson that the raconteur defined a patron as an individual who idly watched a man at risk of drowning in...

Trudeau: Putting self above national interest

In order to deflect attention from his own lapses, Trudeau has sought to pin the blame on India for a gangland murder of the...

Dividing the democracies

It was early this year that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was being asked in the Canadian parliament about a PRC ring operating in the...

President Biden may have created his own problems

Biden refrained from expanding the strength of the Supreme Court so as to ensure a moderate majority on the bench. That miscalculation could cost...

India and Saudi Arabia make history

The bonhomie between the leaders of India and Saudi Arabia would have come as a shock to those who tour global capitals so as...

Modi unites a fractured G20 around the Delhi Declaration

It need not have been all that much of a surprise when the Delhi Declaration put forward by India, and which embodied the concept...

Don’t summarily dismiss ‘One Nation One Poll’

Some of the arguments being deployed against implementing One Nation One Poll are bizarre, among them being the worry that there may be a...

Zero tolerance to expansionism in Indo-Pacific

It has long been assumed within the upper reaches of the CCP that Laos and Cambodia had become vassal states of the PRC, and...

PM Modi speeds up Blockchain in digital drive

The RBI needs to remember that unless global crypto norms get established as suggested by the PM, several of its measures may have a...

India stands up to Xi’s bluster

The year 2023 will be a special period in the roster of G20 annual meetings. It is the year after the members of NATO...

Ahead of G20 Summit, Modi steers BRICS towards neutrality

Despite efforts by some of its members to convert the group into an instrument of bloc politics, BRICS has remained neutral. Despite similar efforts...

A neutral BRICS Plus is a win for India

The presence of PM Modi at the 2023 BRICS Summit proved to be an effective counter to what was expected to be the overwhelming...

Chandrayaan shows Global South’s mettle

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his joy and gratitude to the scientists, technicians and others responsible for the soft landing of the Vikram...

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