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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...
Western countries have dominated the rest of the world for centuries. This has ingrained in them some pernicious habits of lecturing the non-Western...
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,...
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...
India’s foreign policy, as of other countries, is determined by certain permanent factors, for instance, its size, resources, geographical location...
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...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to UAE - his seventh one - has many dimensions. Given India's rise and the governance changes taking...
Pakistan was already in a serious political, economic and social mess. The elections just held have deepened that mess. The functioning of all...
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...
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...
Fractious and divided internal politics, Islamism and the Chinese hand explain the antagonism of the new government of Maldives towards India. The...
Global developments or foreign policies of countries do not follow calendar years. The transition from 2023 to 2024 has no meaning really in...
India strode prominently on the international stage in 2023. It chaired the G20 summit, as also the SCO summit (virtually). It attended the BRICS...
The year 2023 saw significant bilateral or multilateral summit meetings involving India. This gave opportunities to strengthen India’s ties with...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A country’s foreign policy has to reflect the change in its external relations and international developments. If it is true that in international...
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...
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...
The geopolitical consequences of the bloody clashes between Israel and Hamas risk to be serious. Already the Ukraine conflict has been very disruptive...
Justin Trudeau has much to answer for willfully causing a crisis in India-Canada relations. India’s repeated protests to the Canadian government on...
The G20 Summit has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, with its success in delivering the New Delhi Leaders' Declaration. There was apprehension...
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...