Trudeau’s CHARGES AGAINST India not winning him friends

October 26, 2023

Canada’s Opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, was scathing in his criticism of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an interview, calling him “incompetent” and “unprofessional” for mishandling Canada’s relations with India. He also promised to restore Canada’s relationship with India once he comes to power. Given that Canada’s elections are two...

West Asia’s cycle of violence must stop

October 19, 2023

The latest crisis in West Asia is playing according to the script, as far as the Hamas and its backers are concerned. When it carried out its heinous attack on Israel on 7 October, the Hamas would have anticipated Israel’s devastating response. No country can sit quietly when over a...

India has a Russia problem

October 17, 2023

Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Anil Chauhan’s statement at a lecture he was delivering on Saturday, that Russia’s geopolitical importance would go down in the future has created a bit of a flutter. Retired diplomats and others have been pointing out that such “inappropriate” statements should not be made in...

Hamas’ terrorism cannot be justified

October 12, 2023

India has surprised many status quoists by coming out in support of Israel against Hamas’ terrorist attacks on 7 October. Given India’s nuanced stand on the issue of Israel-Palestine and given the fact that India has been voting against Israel at the United Nations or abstaining from voting on matters...

West Asia sinks back into the past

October 10, 2023

The surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was unprecedented not only for its scale, but also for the brutality perpetrated on common Israelis. The so-called resistance fighters behaved like hardened criminals when they went house to house slaughtering civilians, raping and massacring the women attendees of...

Stop pursuing recklessly populist politics

October 5, 2023

At a time when development, aspiration, India’s rise as an international power have entered the national discourse, a time when the nation has started taking baby steps towards a post-caste identity, the Opposition believes that it can pull the country back to the days of Mandal politics of the 1980s....

Shun conspiracy theories on India-US relations

October 3, 2023

The ongoing India-Canada spat and the alleged supplying of intelligence by the US to Canada on Khalistani terrorist Nijjar’s murder have resulted in several US-sceptics in India rearing their head. “We told you so” they say, while asserting that India and the US cannot be partners, that the US cannot...

The U.S. needs to cut Bangladesh some slack

September 28, 2023

At times the United States gets a bit too selective in its self-appointed role as the arbiter of justice, and upholder of a liberal and democratic rules-based international order. More often than not this selective sanctimony ends up subverting its own foreign policy goals. Take the instance of US policy...

Spread the word that Canada harbours terrorists

September 26, 2023

The discourse in western media, academic and political circles on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation that the Indian government may have a potential link to the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, is getting bizarre by the day. A proscribed terrorist, a man with an Interpol Red Corner...

Trudeau’s geopolitical game against India flops

September 21, 2023

What caused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation in the Canadian Parliament about India’s potential link to the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil? It was a serious allegation to make about the world’s largest democracy and at the time of writing, there is no sign...