Prime Minister last evening’s May 12 2025 address to the nation — in the immediate aftermath of the Pahalgam Terror attack and India’s resounding anti-terrorist response to Pakistani sponsorship for the same — was a historic one indeed and truly deserved the appreciation of the whole nation. A few people I know are dissatisfied withContinue reading “The toughest part of Modi’s job as PM: It’s not Pakistan’s “death to India by a thousand cuts”… it’s “the most unkindest cut of all” dealt by churlish citizens”
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WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?
The answer to the question, in my humble layman view is … Because India’s relations with Palestine are emotional and towards Israel, they are transactional. Palestine reminds INDIA so much of the pain and the horrors of her own 1947 Partition when millions of people were displaced and rendered homeless and destitute. So India cannotContinue reading “WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?”
Surat outdoes the Pentagon but Guns are forever … Diamonds are not
This Surat diamond bourse will have 7.1 million sq.ft versus the next largest office-building complex in the world , the US Pentagon, which has only 600,000 sq.ft. !! This is yet another reason for New INDIA to boast about … outdoing the Pentagon in glittering style indeed ! I have only one word of cautionContinue reading “Surat outdoes the Pentagon but Guns are forever … Diamonds are not”
At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !
No punches pulled … India’s EAM and diplomat S. Jaishankar puts an Austrian TV anchor in his place … with devastating zingers ! Never before in history have I heard an Indian Foreign Minister speak so candidly and authoritatively in a foreign forum… Usually they would hum and haw and mumble vaguely and duck loadedContinue reading “At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !”
In the fruit-grove of Asia, has India turned out to be low-hanging fruit for America?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-23/cold-war-2-with-china-and-russia-is-becoming-ww3-niall-ferguson Bloomberg Excellent Op-Ed in the Bloomberg magazine indeed that gives deep insights into what’s going on today in the global theatre of superpower conflicts. Having read the essay carefully I asked myself: Okay, but what does it all mean for India ? And here’s what I think : India is being wooed and suckeredContinue reading “In the fruit-grove of Asia, has India turned out to be low-hanging fruit for America?”
The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear”
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/pakistan-saudi-arabia-rift-widens-after-oic-foreign-ministers-summit/amp_articleshow/88479783.cms The Economic Times dt. 24 December 2021 I read the above article with great interest since, after having lived and worked 25 years of my professional career in Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and travelled all across the Middle-East, I am familiar with the history and politics of its peoples and can relateContinue reading “The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear””