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Opinion | The Irony Of West's 'Democracy' Memos To India

What to make of a spate of articles in media and research papers by think tanks in the West about democratic "backsliding" in India, just before the...

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Opinion | America Should Know Fellow Democracies Must Be Respected, And Not Scorned

Western countries have dominated the rest of the world for centuries. This has ingrained in them some pernicious habits of lecturing the non-Western...

31.03.2024 20

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Opinion | Why India Must Deepen Its Ties With Myanmar To Counter China

Myanmar is as much a neighbour of India as other countries in our subcontinent. Whether India pays the same attention to Myanmar as it does to Nepal,...

26.03.2024 10

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Opinion: Hard Realities - Is India Ready For A Real Taliban Outreach?

India has now begun to engage more uninhibitedly with the Taliban leadership in Kabul, as was demonstrated by a March 7 visit of a delegation of the...

19.03.2024 10

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Opinion | Continuity and Change in India’s Foreign Policy: Decoding a Decade of PM Modi’s Diplomacy

India’s foreign policy, as of other countries, is determined by certain permanent factors, for instance, its size, resources, geographical location...

15.03.2024 10

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Opinion | India Maintains a Fine Balance in the Global North-South Equation

India is taking the “leadership” of the Global South but is also strengthening its ties with the Global North. (One could also speak of East and...

28.02.2024 10

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Opinion: India-UAE - A Budding Affair Powered By Chemistry And Opportunity

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to UAE - his seventh one - has many dimensions. Given India's rise and the governance changes taking...

20.02.2024 10

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Opinion | Election Results Further Divide Pakistan, Expose Deep Rot and Fissures

Pakistan was already in a serious political, economic and social mess. The elections just held have deepened that mess. The functioning of all...

14.02.2024 9

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Opinion: The Strong Political Message Behind Macron's India Visit

President Emmanuel Macron's visit to India as chief guest at our Republic Day celebrations had a ceremonial aspect, no doubt, but in relations between...

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Opinion | Macron’s Republic Day Visit Will Give Strategic Wing to India-France Ties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief guest at France’s Bastille Day on July 14 this year. Six months later President Emmanuel Macron is chief...

25.01.2024 5

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Opinion: Hard Realities Will Soon Catch Up With Maldives

Fractious and divided internal politics, Islamism and the Chinese hand explain the antagonism of the new government of Maldives towards India. The...

20.01.2024 20

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Opinion | Fast Forward 2024: Challenges and Opportunities for Indian Diplomacy

Global developments or foreign policies of countries do not follow calendar years. The transition from 2023 to 2024 has no meaning really in...

11.01.2024 7

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Opinion: After Pivotal 2023, India Boldly Steps Into 2024

India strode prominently on the international stage in 2023. It chaired the G20 summit, as also the SCO summit (virtually). It attended the BRICS...

02.01.2024 10

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Rewind 2023: A Year of Summits and Diplomatic Successes

The year 2023 saw significant bilateral or multilateral summit meetings involving India. This gave opportunities to strengthen India’s ties with...

26.12.2023 10

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Opinion: The Pannun Report And Agenda-Setting by The Anglosphere Media

A planted article in the Financial Times (FT) on an FBI-thwarted plot to assassinate the known terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on US soil by...

25.11.2023 10

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Opinion | Biden-Xi Summit: No Significant Breakthrough in San Francisco

The Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in San Francisco on the occasion of the APEC summit did not signify any meaningful breakthrough in their increasingly...

23.11.2023 10

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Opinion: What Did The Biden-Xi Meet Really Achieve?

The Biden-Xi meeting in San Francisco on the sidelines of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit hasn't, on the face of it, produced any...

17.11.2023 3

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Opinion | India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue, China and the West Asian Crisis

The timing of the India-US 2 2 Ministerial Dialogue on November 10 has sent its own political message. That both the US Secretary of State and the US...

14.11.2023 7

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Opinion | India Maintaining a Fine Balance in West Asia

A country’s foreign policy has to reflect the change in its external relations and international developments. If it is true that in international...

06.11.2023 10

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Opinion: The Heavy Cost Of A Widening Israel-Hamas War

The Israel-Hamas conflict is looking more and more ominous. Israel is bent on seeking ruthless revenge. The outrage in Israel provoked by the horrific...

27.10.2023 5

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Opinion | Invoking Vienna Convention on Canadian Diplomats is Usual Western Hypocrisy

Under the Vienna Convention, India is within its rights as the host country to decide on the size of a foreign mission on its soil. The size cannot be...

25.10.2023 3

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Opinion | How Situation in West Asia Has Entered a Dangerous, Unpredictable Phase

The geopolitical consequences of the bloody clashes between Israel and Hamas risk to be serious. Already the Ukraine conflict has been very disruptive...

13.10.2023 2

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Opinion | Why Trudeau is Willing to Jeopardise India-Canada Ties for the Sake of a Known Criminal

Justin Trudeau has much to answer for willfully causing a crisis in India-Canada relations. India’s repeated protests to the Canadian government on...

23.09.2023 20

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Opinion: For G20 Delhi Declaration, G7 Ceded Major Ground On Ukraine

The G20 Summit has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, with its success in delivering the New Delhi Leaders' Declaration. There was apprehension...

10.09.2023 2

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Opinion | G20 Summit: Xi Jinping’s Absence Not a Snub to India, It’s Defensive in Nature

India’s presidency of the G20 has been most challenging because of the Ukraine conflict that has ruptured the West’s ties with Russia, the...

08.09.2023 10

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