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Vivek Katju

Vivek Katju

The Times of India

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Jaishankar’s 8 Points

07.02.2025 9

Greater Kashmir

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From Sukarno to Subianto

31.01.2025 9

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A speech with no gravitas

24.01.2025 7

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Dhankharspeak: The Vice-Presidential Art of Evading a Topic While Talking About it

24.01.2025 10

The Wire

Vivek Katju

Indians beyond India

17.01.2025 10

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FOC: Misri meeting Majid

10.01.2025 2

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How Canada can undo Justin Trudeau’s damage to bilateral ties with India

Despite the presence of a large Indian diaspora in Canada, bilateral ties have not been a priority for India. Canada’s handling of the Kanishka...

08.01.2025 5

Indian Express

Vivek Katju

Express view on market fall: Investors need more clarity

How the upcoming Union budget and the February meeting of the monetary policy committee support the economy will also help investors re-examine...

08.01.2025 10

Indian Express

Vivek Katju

GDP slowed down this year. Will next year be better?

Slower growth is expected in construction and the electricity, gas and water supply segments. The services sector is also likely to witness a...

08.01.2025 10

Indian Express

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India and Canada, after Justin Trudeau

An immediate reset in ties might be difficult. But his departure provides an opening

08.01.2025 8

Indian Express

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The Third Edit: In Pluto and Charon’s pairing, a love story and a reminder

The newfound understanding of Pluto's formative years is a reminder that in science as in life, change is messy, complicated — and inevitable

08.01.2025 30

Indian Express

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How Canada can undo Justin Trudeau’s damage to bilateral ties with India

Despite the presence of a large Indian diaspora in Canada, bilateral ties have not been a priority for India. Canada’s handling of the Kanishka...

08.01.2025 5

Indian Express

Vivek Katju

Quad: After 20 years

The foreign ministers of India, Australia, Japan and the United States issued a joint statement on December 31 to mark the ‘20th anniversary of...

03.01.2025 2

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As 2025 beckons

2024 goes into history and the next year beckons. How did Indian diplomacy fare with China in this year and what would be the challenges and...

27.12.2024 2

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Vivek Katju

India: An acknowledged global chess power

2024 has been a spectacular year for Indian chess. The national women’s and men’s teams won the Chess Olympiad in September in Hungary; this...

20.12.2024 3

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Sounds from Syria

The defeat and departure of Bashar al-Assad from Syria marks an end of the era of ‘secular’ nationalists in Arab politics who could trace their...

13.12.2024 3

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Vivek Katju

Trump: Vague warnings in purple prose!

In a little over six weeks Donald Trump will once again become the holder of the most powerful global office–that of President of the United...

06.12.2024 6

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Climate of Threat

The 29th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) met in the Azerbaijan...

29.11.2024 3

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Thousand Days of War

November 19 marked one thousand days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Whatever provocations, real or imaginary, that Russia may have endured...

22.11.2024 3

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India-Saudi Diplomatic Corridor

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan visited India on November 12-13 to hold official talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar....

15.11.2024 2

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Trump is Back

That Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US Presidential election will become part of global political fork lore which will last for a very long...

08.11.2024 2

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Diplomatic practice, old and new

The object of diplomacy is to maximize national interest. To do so diplomacy requires flexibility but also an adherence to principles. The demands...

01.11.2024 4

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A contradiction deeply embedded

October 24 is celebrated by the international community as the United Nations Day. On this day, in 1945, the treaty to create the United Nations...

25.10.2024 3

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The contest and the contrast

Less than three weeks are left before the US electorate decide who will be the next US President. This is the most important forthcoming global...

18.10.2024 2

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India-Canada relations truly reached a low point on October 14

India-Canada relations truly reached a low point on October 14. This is because the two countries’ public recriminations have gone beyond the realm...

16.10.2024 2

Indian Express

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Maldives: Between China and India

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu was on a state visit to India from October 6-10. India rolled out the red carpet for him. Apart from visiting...

11.10.2024 2

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Talking in major global spaces

The 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly began on September 10. As is usual, the General Debate began two week’s later on September...

05.10.2024 30

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QUAD: Countering China

The fourth in-person Quad summit was held in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on September 21. Wilmington is the hometown of the outgoing US President,...

27.09.2024 2

Greater Kashmir

Vivek Katju

A Declaration on Future Generations

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the United States on September 21-23 to participate in a QUAD summit convened by outgoing US President Joe...

21.09.2024 7

Greater Kashmir

Vivek Katju

Playing with world war 3!

With just eight weeks to go for the US presidential elections on November 5, former President Donald Trump and current Vice-President Kamala...

14.09.2024 10

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Brunei: Small is significant

Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on an official visit to Brunei on 3-4 September. This was the first bilateral visit of an Indian Prime Minister...

07.09.2024 10

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Is he a lame duck?

Is US President Joe Biden becoming less and less effective in influencing the course of global events since his announcement on July 21, that he...

31.08.2024 10

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There is a historical parallel going back four decades to what West & Ukraine want of India at this stage

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on the train journey from Warsaw to Kyiv, the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount perhaps best...

30.08.2024 3

Indian Express

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An ambitious intention

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come on a state visit to India on August 20. In diplomatic...

24.08.2024 5

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Ukrainian Advance into Russian territory

In February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine and in almost two and a half years since the war began, all land action has been on Ukrainian territory....

17.08.2024 20

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The nation is facing such significant security challenges that it cannot afford the luxury of politics as usual on these matters

In less than three years, Indian foreign and security interests have suffered severe setbacks in three countries in India’s immediate...

12.08.2024 20

Indian Express

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Latent Racism, Potent Digitalism

On July 29 morning a 17-year-old boy entered a hall in Southport, Britain where a dance workshop for girls between the ages of 6 and 11 was going...

10.08.2024 3

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Vivek Katju

A Shocking Assassination

Policy Matters Tensions in West Asia have escalated further with the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the Political Head of Hamas, in Tehran, in the...

03.08.2024 6

Greater Kashmir

Vivek Katju

Harris giving Netanyahu’s address a miss

US support for Israel is a cardinal feature of the foreign policy of the world’s pre-eminent power. On its part, Israel has, since the time of its...

27.07.2024 2

Greater Kashmir

Vivek Katju

Modi’s Russia visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Moscow on July 8-9 for the 22nd edition of the India-Russia Annual summit. These summits are occasions for in-...

20.07.2024 20

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Vivek Katju