2 October 2019 is observed as the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. This year is extraordinary as the world is celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi. Indian masses respect him by calling Rashtrapitatha, after leading the Indian masses in the...
KPS Menon (Jr.), India’s Foreign Secretary during 1987-89
KPS Menon (Jr.), former Foreign Secretary, passed away last night. He chose Thiruvananthapuram in deep south for his departure, as far away as he possibly could from the Byzantine world of the...
In a sense, the circumvention of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir by the Narendra Modi government concludes the fierce debate between Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbahi Patel on the Kashmir file...
Editorials have appeared in two leading Delhi newspapers today (here and here) urging the government to present a credible, appealing diplomatic narrative on the J&K developments.
The Indian narrative so far is largely focused on the domestic audience. It has...
We like our anniversaries in blocks of 50 or 100 – at a push we’ll tolerate a 25. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (2015). Next year, we’ll remember the...
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India’s decision to deprive Kashmir of its autonomy, alongside a clampdown in the troubled north-western Chinese province...
The Kashmir move affects the robust nature of Indian democracy in addressing internal conflicts and alienation
The recent abrogation of Article 370 ending the special status of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) in the Indian Constitution along with the Jammu and...
The rise of a critical mass of world leaders including Donald J. Trump, Xi Jinping and others In Europe, Asia and Latin America who are bent on shaping a new world order in their authoritarian and civilizationalist mould, has...
By Mohan Guruswamy
The Narendra Modi government’s action of abrogating Article 370 is reminiscent of the precipitous “Demonetisation” that marked the downturn of the economy which still shows no sign of looking up.The sudden bifurcation of the erstwhile...
With one stroke of a pen, the Government of India, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has dramatically and radically altered the relationship between the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian Union, the dynamics...
