Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Foreign Affairs on Jun 2nd, 2011
Towards the end of the Bush-Blair Patnership era, questions were asked on the plunging relationship between the two nations, who in the recent past have championed the cause of world peace, security and democracy. However the tenor of the recently concluded State visit of Obama to London might speak something else. Amidst all the bonhomie, [...]
Posted in Foreign Affairs on May 11th, 2011
What happened in the Abbottabad raid? We may never know for sure. Not from the officials at least. On my personal blog ( mostly a collection of bylines and posts on foreign affairs), a take on the many twists and turns in the plot. Here. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditTweet thisSubscribe [...]
Posted in Foreign Affairs, india on Mar 5th, 2011
While Maummar Gaddafi continues his onslaught on the Libyan people and accuses nescafe for mixing hallucianting drugs in their coffee, the Libyan leader also hopes to find a new ally in India. TOI reports; “Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi told PM Manmohan Singh last week that his actions against his people in Libya were akin to [...]
Posted in Democracy, Foreign Affairs on Feb 1st, 2011
A time for you and a time for me, wrote T.S. Eliot, and time yet for a hundred indecisions. Not so for the incumbent President of Egypt, certainly not his time and most certainly not the time for indecision. With the million-man march slated to take place anytime now, the protests have hit fever pitch. [...]
Posted in Democracy, Foreign Affairs on Jan 19th, 2011
With the unrest in Tunisia, Wikileaks is finally living up to its claim of opening Governments. In many ways, the unrest in Tunisia that resulted in the overthrow of a two-decade old authoritarian regime will remain a watershed event in our memories. Perhaps the simmering discontent could spill over to the Arab world and usher [...]
Posted in Foreign Affairs on Nov 6th, 2010
Earlier today, the US India Political Action Committee lamented the coverage of President Obama’s visit to India (by the Indian media) as either ‘embarrassingly fawning’ or ‘irritatingly cynical’. That’s certainly not a fair assessment, atleast in so far as the print media is concerned, and several pieces in national newspapers have provided balanced analyses of [...]