Bringing India to heel
In the decades after Indian independence, Western powers, led by the UK and later increasingly the US, were irritated and disappointed with Nehru’s India. Nehru’s exaggerated view of his world standing, mostly More...
Why endangered India has few well-wishers abroad
The nationwide outcry over the perfectly reasonable and measured legislative programme pertaining to the NRC and the CAA has revealed starkly what some already know. India has very few friends abroad and a significant More...
Ayodhya as a foreign policy issue
The recent Ramnath Goenka lecture by External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar was a model of depth, nuance and sophistication. It contained everything I would have wished to propose myself as an international More...
Need for a Dharmic Election Manifesto for British Elections
Dharmic communities have largely been ignored by British political parties. Their real interests have rarely been on the political agenda. The fault lies mainly with Dharmic communities, especially Hindus and associated More...
The Predicament of British Dharmic Communities
Dharmic communities in the UK are under unprecedented attack. The deep-seated racism endemic in British society has found sly new forms to express itself. The apparent racist animus towards Dharmic communities More...
Hating India, not so cordially!
In over fifty years, I can only truly recall only one palpably warm and affirmative article in the British media about India. It was written by a former student of mine, the correspondent of a leading London daily More...
The Oxbridge-Harvard syndrome
Narendra Modi’s somehow well-aimed quip about the contrast between Harvard and hard work crossed my mind while sitting recently at a student café outside the LSE library, the extraordinarily precious access to More...
The unravelling of India
“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism” Sri Aurobindo Introduction Countries and empires More...
Islamophobia in Britain
Recent discussions about the prevalence of the phenomenon of Islamophobia place most in a quandary. Despite repeated assertions by many that it prevails and requires action to combat, hardly any clarity is evident More...
Modi’s war against India’s enemies
The likelihood of a Sino-Pak military assault against India remains quite high. India’s economic progress and continuing acquisition of economic autonomy and resilience undermine Sino-Pak interests. The re-election More...