Category Archives: Indian democracy

Modi: Not quite an Indian Trump

Posted on November 20, 2019 by

[Modi- Trump] Spent the last fortnight in New York lazing around doing nothing much. But couldn’t escape the newspaper coverage and press commentaries regarding India. Unfortunately for the Narendra Modi government 3-4 issues blew up at the same time — … Continue reading →

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Steve Cohen, RIP

Posted on October 30, 2019 by

[Steve Cohen] The last time Stephen P Cohen and I corresponded was in late December 2017-January 2018 when I greeted him on Hanukkah (the occasion for Jews all over to celebrate the revival of the Second Temple in Jerusalem). It … Continue reading →

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India’s challenge in Afghanistan

Posted on October 25, 2019 by

[Muqaddessa Yourish] In an informative interaction in CPR this morning, the youngish and well-spoken Muqaddessa Yourish, until recently Deputy Commerce Minister of Afghanistan and former civil servant who headed her country’s civil service reforms commission, provided several insights into the … Continue reading →

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The coming pain from putting eggs in the US and China baskets

Posted on October 4, 2019 by

Forewarned apparently does not, for the Bharatiya Janata Party government, mean being forearmed. In writings prior to and in my recent books — Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet) in end-2015 and Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s … Continue reading →

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Time for Magnanimity

Posted on August 25, 2019 by

(Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa) With the long overdue overturning of Article 370, the status of Jammu & Kashmir is now regularised within the Indian Union. In its wake, the Bharatiya Janata Party government … Continue reading →

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Bummer in Biarritz — potentially

Posted on August 22, 2019 by

(Modi & Trump) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be headed this weekend for Biarritz, on the southwest coast of France, where the G-7 Summit is being held. The informal UN Security Council session on Kashmir a few days back has … Continue reading →

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CDS; reliance on locally-made products — does Modi mean for national defence?

Posted on August 15, 2019 by

(Armed services chiefs meeting Modi at the Red Fort — Aug 15, 2019) Sometimes Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes up with pleasant surprises. There was the announcement in his address from the Red Fort ramparts about the chief of defence … Continue reading →

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