The fault, dear Mr Naik, is not across the Himalayas Mint has a very good editorial in response to the accusation that China is “systematically killing” Indian manufacturing. Admittedly, there are geopolitical considerations at stake for India. But as the trade deficit with China widens over the last few years, it’s giving vent to populism, ...
An Australian view of the attacks on Indian students Over at The Lowy Interpreter, Rory Medcalf writes: Even if most of the violence against Indian students has been opportunistic street crime, some of it no doubt has had a racial edge. And if any of the latest attacks on Indians in Australia are proven to ...
More unrealism from Brzezinski As we have noted earlier, a Brzezinskian world is a world where there is a tidy bipolar world, where the United States and China sit together and make The Big Decisions. It differs from the real world in that the real world is real, and the Brzezinskian world lies in the ...
On this week’s terrorist attack on Srinagar “Barring that it took place around the corner from the offices of Srinagar-based television stations,” writes The Hindu in today’s editorial, “there was little to distinguish the incident from dozens of similar fire engagements that regularly take place in the State.” During the course of the attack, the ...
A fisking of Barbara Crossette’s piece in Foreign Policy Foreign Policy‘s online editors invited me to rebut Barbara Crossette’s piece on India being the baddest boy of global governance. You can see the published version on their website. This is the original draft. Making room for India Contrary to Barbara Crossette, India does the global ...
The opportunity in the crisis In today’s DNA, Mukul Asher & Azad Singh Bali argue that it is an opportune moment for India to make a serious play in developing international financial services: It may seem odd to stress the need for developing international financial services (IFS) during the fragile recovery from the global financial ...
The Pakistani military establishment has its reasons to over-react to General Deepak Kapoor’s remarks This time, it’s an obscure comment at an internal seminar about a new doctrine that the Indian army is working on. The doctrine is not even ready in draft form. It has not even been endorsed by the Army Headquarters. And, ...
Shouldn’t he tell his boss “to be alive to the impact of his government’s counter-terrorism strategies on minorities?” The New York Times reports that a “radical Islamic group planning a protest march through the streets of a town that has achieved iconic status in Britain for honoring the passing hearses of British soldiers killed in ...
Really. Ajay Shah draws attention to some very interesting findings from a Pew Global survey. To the question “whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements: Most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are rich and some are poor“, 81% of ...
A UN mandate might make it easier for India to send troops to Afghanistan In the July-Sep 2009 issue of Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd) concludes his scenario analysis of Afghanistan with the following: A peaceful and stable Afghanistan capable of maintaining its strategic autonomy is a vital national interest for India. ...