Top
Home » N Sathiya Moorthy
N Sathiya Moorthy
About the AuthorN Sathiya Moorthy
The writer is director of the Chennai chapter of the Observer Research Foundation, a leading Indian think tank. Email: sathiyam54@gmail.com.
    With Sri Lanka facing the worst food and forex crises since Independence in 1948, Mr Shringlas separate meetings with finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, foreign minister G.L. Peiris and his counterpart, Adm. Jayanth Colombage (Retd), all on Monday, assumes immediate importance for the hosts in particular. (Twitter)Nation
    Shringla's visit to Jaffna is hugely symbolic

    It is Mr Shringla's maiden visit to Sri Lanka after taking over as foreign secretary in January last year

    3 Oct 2021 2:20 PM

    Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla. (Twitter)Opinion
    N Sathiya Moorthy | Conferring stability to India ties is a way out...

    India has proved to Sri Lanka and all its other neighbours that it was more trustworthy than any extra-regional power

    1 Oct 2021 11:07 AM

    Gota, his Government and the party will also be tied down to the stalled Provincial Council elections and also parliamentary polls, which are due by August 2020 but could come through much earlier.Featured
    Return of the Rajas

    Much has been written about the Rajapaksas and all controversies surrounding them, in terms of war-time crimes and...

    24 Nov 2019 7:45 PM

    RajinikanthOpinion
    No vacuum in ‘Dravidian’ TN for Rajini to fill

    The BJP once again lost even more badly than in 2014 even while putting up a bigger show at the national level than...

    10 Nov 2019 7:38 PM

    Maldives: Rise and fall of Ahmed AdHeebOpinion
    Maldives: Rise and fall of Ahmed AdHeeb

    Adheeb was under ‘house arrest’, still not an uncommon legal practice in the country along with such archaic penal...

    1 Aug 2019 10:47 PM

    Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (Photo: AP)Featured
    Sri Lanka's Clash of civilisations

    Wickremesinghe finds himself not only jobless but once again rootless, especially in terms of the earthiness of Sri...

    11 Nov 2018 1:39 AM

    The DMK supremos death on August 7 comes less than two years after the passing of arch-rival and former AIADMK chief minister Jayalalithaa on December 5, 2016. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Post-Karunanidhi, it's business as usual

    Karunanidhi's bed-ridden condition meant he was party president only in name, though the voters and cadre still...

    12 Aug 2018 7:20 PM

    Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.Opinion
    Post-Muthuvel Karunanidhi, it's business as usual in Tamil Nadu

    The death of C.N. Annadurai and MGR did not wipe out the parties that they had left behind.

    10 Aug 2018 11:41 PM

    Newly sworn-in Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy along with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, AICC president Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, BSP leader Mayawati and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi wave after the swearing-in ceremony, in Bengaluru, on Wednesday. (Image: PTI)Featured
    Political hara-kiri is in DNA of BJP-RSS

    In upcoming elections, the BJP and Congress may be pitted face to face in MP and Rajasthan

    27 May 2018 1:06 AM

    Is it the best time, or the worst for Congress Party to have Rahul Gandhi take over as party president, in form, content and the sheer timing of it all? It is a two-edged sword.Featured
    Rahul Gandhi: Reluctant suitor, but...

    Media analysis on the national electoral scene continues to be centred on a BJP-Congress spat, reduced to a Modi-Rahul...

    10 Dec 2017 1:50 AM

    Criticism of rewriting history has occurred more often when centre-right forces are in places of power and are able to influence history-writing.Discourse
    Rewriting history is a distortion

    History as a true narrative cannot be faulted. But history as an interpretative narrative can take angles, justified and...

    13 Aug 2017 7:33 PM

    Left activists and leaders shout slogans and carry an effigy of PM Narendra Modi during a protest against demonetisation, in Hyderabad.Opinion
    360 Degree: Demonetisation - Politics beyond the economics

    Today, demonetisation, rather than even Hindutva, has united the Opposition, more than any other issue under the Modi...

    19 Nov 2016 8:12 PM

    X