June , 2009
To Russia with love, and a bit of luck
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While everyone sorts out just what Elections 2009 meant for the Congress, the BJP, the Left- what has perhaps crept up on all concerned, unnoticed is what the election verdict has meant for India-Pakistan ties. The solid mandate the UPA recieved has now allowed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take off for Russia with ease, his officials making it very clear that he will be meeting with President Zardari on the sidelines of the SCO summit- and holding talks with him. Gone is the shifty eyed south-block diplomatic speak- 'they will meet, but not talk, they will talk, but it wont be substantive, it will be substantive but wont change ground realities, etc etc.' That sort of diffidence is what characterized so many of our past engagements with our neighbour- In Agra post Kargil and Kandahar, in Kathmandu post the Parliament attack, all the way to Havana....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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