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  • May
    04

    The world after Osama

    May 1, Labour Day, marked the first anniversary of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s killing.

  • Apr
    16

    Room to play

    The shadow of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 continues to loom over India-Pakistan parleys.

  • Mar
    26

    Nuclear riddles

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set forth over the weekend to attend the Second Nuclear Security Summit at Seoul

  • Mar
    12

    In a policy slipstream

    From end-January, when the five-state Assembly elections commenced, till the counting day on March 6, while the nation waited and guessed

  • Feb
    23

    A diplomatic enclave

    On February 21, seven months after US ambassador to India Timothy Roemer left, his successor Nancy J. Powell omitted India-Iran relations

  • Feb
    09

    Syria stuck between 3 minutes & 40 years

    Syria has been simmering since 2011, when the Arab Spring wafted over it from the heartland of the Arab world — Egypt.

  • Jan
    23

    Iranian paranoia

    Like time and tide national security/foreign policy issues await none, not even a government in Delhi distracted by the Foreign Direct Investment Bill

  • Dec
    26

    An anxious 2012

    As 2011 ends, to vary George Orwell’s quip in Animal Farm, while all years are equal this one was more equal than others.

  • Nov
    30

    A bout of Sinositis

    The four-day Global Budhist Congress which commenced on November 26, with 900 attendees from 32 countries, instead of radiating Indian soft power

  • Nov
    10

    Mirages and oases

    As 2011 ends, the world is different from what the US envisaged in 2001.