I was onboard the Prime Minister's Special Air India One to report the 16th NAM summit last August. As the plane began its descent towards ...
07:19 AM, Oct 07, 2012
As the NAM summit kicks off in Tehran, Indian diplomats appear focussed less on those deliberations and more on Manmohan Singh's bilateral with President Ahmadinejad ...
02:35 PM, Aug 29, 2012
As the BCCI is on the anvil of making yet another alteration to the domestic structure, it is interesting to look back upon the various ...
11:22 AM, Jul 12, 2012
There is a whole lot of talk about how India does not have a robust enough strategic culture. So "Geek at Large", in its own ...
02:08 PM, Jul 11, 2012
The growing rift between Iran and the United States took me back to my days at the United Nations(UN) in New York last year. I ...
01:42 PM, May 17, 2012
I don't think Iran or Hezbollah is behind the series of attacks that have targeted Israeli citizens and establishments in the last one week. I ...
04:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Julius Nyerere of Tanzania once said that "when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers". This aphorism fit the Cold War-era spectacle of ...
04:28 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Does the only country that ever used a nuclear bomb in war, have any right to preach non proliferation to the world? Isn't that a ...
08:37 PM, Feb 15, 2012
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Most of us in Mumbai had hoped for a quiet New Year after an eventful news year. But along came Anna. In the ...
09:06 PM, Dec 23, 2011
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When those fuzzy images of violence in the streets of Tehran appear on TV screens, I'm reminded of Rais el-Sadat. He was an Iranian, the ...
10:26 AM, Mar 07, 2011
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A huge laminated poster of Andhra Pradesh's favourite megastar Chiranjeevi stares back at me from the corner of a friend's room. The friend, also now ...
05:20 PM, Feb 07, 2011
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Julian Assange spiced up the Bahrain regional security conference over the week-end. The Manama Dialogue is an annual hi powered event organized by the International ...
08:55 PM, Dec 05, 2010
