My childhood memories of a broken Buddha sculpture spawned a bewildering array of questions—long before I came to know about the greatness of the apostle of Ahimsa. We were told that the sculpture, made of...
A recent agitation by 30-odd trade unions, big and small and also all the employees of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), calling upon the government to rescind the tripartite memorandum with India and Japan, to develop Colombo Port’s...
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has again a wrong ball in his hand which will surely hit headlines with fiddly pay-offs. The news that the mastermind of the 9/11 terror operations, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has become...
India has done well with its neighbours by not giving up on them in their own hour of crisis. Even while the nation was faced with exigencies of every kind, New Delhi has repeatedly despatched COVID19-related medical assistance individual...
The regional entity in South Asia—South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)—seems to have a new lease of life with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, taking an unexpected initiative to have a Conference of the leaders of...
Going by media reports, no positive movement seems
to have emanated at the Gota-Modi talks at New Delhi in the Sri Lankan
President’s maiden overseas visit after his convincing electoral victory back
home. It was the first meeting between the two leaders,...
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...
The External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s statement in the Parliament on July 18 regarding the judgment by the International Court of Justice on Kulbhushan Jadhav — he called it “certain important development — was noteworthy for its sobriety of...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav case is indeed a triumph for India. The world court, ruling in favour of India, fifteen to one, has not only directed Pakistan to grant consular access to Jadhav...
The Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent official visit
to China on July 1-6 highlights a new template in regional politics —
the rise of Bangladesh as regional power.
Last
year Bangladesh outstripped India as the fastest growing economy in...
