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...

Geopolitical imperatives for modern India – I

It is a sad fact that foreign and security policies of independent India had not been sufficiently influenced by geopolitical concepts and logics, but rather more by ideological convictions, internal political considerations More...

Total US Imperial Dominance

The US emerged as the pre-eminent country once the USSR retreated dramatically in the early 1990s. It clearly became the pre-eminent military power in a unipolar world, with a supposed Chinese challenge remaining More...

Shafting India at will

There are grounds for suspecting that the arrest, humiliation and assault against Devyani Khobragade may not have been about an underpaid maid and technical violation in a visa application. Something is amiss, but More...