WILL PM MODI’S MAGIC WORK ON BIDEN AND HARRIS TOO?

September 24, 2021

Irrespective of what his diehard detractors might say, PM Narendra Modi has devised his own distinct, characteristic and inimitable charm toolkit which helps him trigger positive vibes in his foreign counterparts and generate personal rapport and chemistry. What can be a more convincing than the fact that he was able...

TALIBAN 2021 ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM TALIBAN 2001

September 14, 2021

In 1984, Amitabh Bachchan was featured as a Police Inspector in a film called Inqilaab. In the last scene, he bursts open with an automatic gun in the Cabinet meeting being chaired by the Chief Minister and his senior Cabinet colleagues and shoots down all of them as they were underworld...

Blinken’s India visit sent a strong message to China

August 3, 2021

Amidst media reports of the capture of a large swath of territory in Afghanistan by the Taliban, it was speculated that Kabul would be at the top of the agenda of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to India. It is because the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan...

NON-VIOLENCE BY BOTH SIDES CAN BRING ISRAEL-PALESTINE PEACE

June 5, 2021

No people in the world have been subjected to such incalculable injustices and atrocities as the Jews. Not by the Arabs or Mongols in medieval times but by a European nation in the 20th century, Germany. Holocaust wasn’t fiction; it did happen. More than five million Jews were killed. This...

CONGRESS: HOW NOT TO READ THE WRITING ON THE WALL AND NOT LEARN ANY LESSONS

May 22, 2021

In the recently held assembly elections in West Bengal where Mamata Banerjee won a third term with ¾ majority garnering over 47% votes, the Indian Nation Congress, in alliance with the Left Front polled less than 7% votes and failed to open her account. But isn’t it déjà vu? In...

READY TO TAKE OFF: AMERICA’S OLDEST AND BOLDEST PRESIDENT

May 4, 2021

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, at 78 years, is the oldest man to be elected as the US President. After coming to power with the highest ever number of popular votes—81 million—he seems to be in a tearing hurry to transform a beleaguered US with missionary zeal. He has unleashed the...

A Requiem for a daughter !

October 20, 2020

Satyameva Jayate! Truth alone triumphs! This line is inscribed on the national emblem. It means what it says. But is this true today? Which is the real truth? The one seen by us, the bystanders? The truth captured by cameras? The truth as experienced by the victim? The truth as...

My brush with a political legend called Pranab Mukherjee

September 4, 2020

What can one say about a personality that loomed large on the Indian national life for half a century and impacted it in numerous ways? When I joined the IFS, he was a minister. And when I met him in the South Block on the last day of my service,...

Just attacking PM Modi won’t do Rahul any good

July 23, 2020

Going by the TV rants of his detractors, headlines in the media and aggressive trolls on social networks, the former president of the Congress, Rahul Gandhi, must be the most mocked, ridiculed and hounded politician in India today. But can he blame anyone else for this unenviable situation? The answer...

War not an option for India and China

July 6, 2020

Why did the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) break the peace and tranquillity of the last 53 years on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with a bloody attack on 15-16 June just after agreeing to disengage on 6 June? Several factors which China considers vital for its national security,...