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T P Sreenivasan is one of India's most distinguished diplomats. A former ambassador to Vienna and the United Nations, he recounts his encounters with some very interesting people in a regular series.
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| November 20, 2009 | |
What Manmohan Singh should tell Barack Obama
'China is not a disinterested observer in South Asia. It is in possession of part of Jammu and Kashmir and has been an unscrupulous supplier of arms and war-like nuclear material to Pakistan.'
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| June 17, 2009 | |
'Pakistan will project it as a diplomatic victory'
'The test, of course, is whether Pakistan will do more to punish the guilty men of Mumbai before the peace process really commences. Pakistan is in no position to take decisions of substance for some more time to come and there is no reason why we should give comfort to anyone that, as on previous occasions, India will engage in the peace process, regardless of the heinous terrorist attacks against India.'
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| June 08, 2009 | |
If only a fine speech could help!
If he has nothing to offer beyond what he has said in Cairo on the Palestine issue, making peace with Islam will remain a distant dream. I very much hope that he has something else up his sleeve.
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| June 05, 2009 | |
If only a fine speech could help!
If he has nothing to offer beyond what he has said in Cairo on the Palestine issue, making peace with Islam will remain a distant dream. I very much hope that he has something else up his sleeve.
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| May 16, 2009 | |
Shashi Tharoor makes history
'Shashi Tharoor and Congress party coming together was a recipe for success. If Shashi had chosen to contest on his own on the basis of his personal accomplishments, he could have presented an agenda for change and made a splash, but like some of the other Independent stars, he would have made a point, but not gone any further.'
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| October 02, 2008 | |
N-deal: A dream come true
The US Senators, who sat through the night to vote on the Bill to clear the 123 agreement till the dawn of October 2 in India, must have been unaware that they were linking the new dawn in Indo-US relations to Mahatma Gandhi. The proverbial Gandhi magic may have played a role in persuading the reluctant Senators to remove the last hurdle in India's 34-year-old struggle to end India's nuclear isolation.
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| September 09, 2008 | |
Sedition was never so well cloaked
Countries with secessionist movements within them should shudder to think of these recent examples of forced independence with the connivance of the big powers. We cannot dismiss them as part of the shaping of a new Europe where Russia, backed by its newly found economic strength, is flexing its muscles to survive against the machinations of NATO. We know that NATO is not confined to Europe any more.
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| September 04, 2008 | |
No Dark Secrets in a Bureaucratic Note
'As long as the prime minister's assurances are embodied in the 123 Agreement, we do not need to quarrel with an internal document of the United States.'
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| August 25, 2008 | |
NSG: Do not discard the baby with the bath water
One reason that the United States has advanced as a justification for an exemption for India from the NSG guidelines is that India will be a contributing partner in the non-proliferation regime, once it accepts safeguards. When India insists that the deal is purely for energy and not for assisting in non-proliferation even by implication, the NSG members become perplexed and suspicious.
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| July 02, 2008 | |
Next Steps in the Nuclear Deal
If the government has the courage to defy its leftist allies, there is no better time to tackle these issues than now.
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| August 29, 2007 | |
Leave the nuclear deal to the Little Man
'The 123 Agreement is open to different interpretations, but it has enough ambiguities there to operate in our interest. The withdrawal clauses in the Agreement are a masterpiece in drafting.'
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| July 23, 2007 | |
A Diplomat and a Gentleman
'The discovery of Hamid Ansari has rekindled hopes that India still has the possibility of rising above partisan politics and to find true patriots with integrity to shoulder State responsibilities.'
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| July 16, 2007 | |
Nigeria Calling: Indians beware!
Nigerian scams are known to e-mail users around the globe, but this one was new because the message had come from my brother's e-mail account.
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| June 26, 2007 | |
Kurt Waldheim: Rogue or Role Model?
'He reduced the secretary general's position so low that his brilliant successors like Boutros Ghali and Kofi Annan looked like rebels.'
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| June 04, 2007 | |
Nuclear deal breakers still alive and well
'If we approach the 123 Agreement as a device to open the door to international cooperation and not as a fundamental document, it may be possible to find the middle path soon.'
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| March 30, 2007 | |
Hard to imagine UN without Shashi Tharoor
What distinguished Shashi from the other senior Indians in the UN Secretariat even in the early years of his career was that he was not paranoid about asserting his international personality to the point of erasing his Indian identity.
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| March 05, 2007 | |
The twenty-first century is India's to lose
Alleviation of poverty is a key element for progress, but to establish a better economic climate for India's farmers and create more jobs, India has to overcome many hazards.
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| July 24, 2006 | |
Desis in Action
For the first generation of desis, their Indianness is an anchor, which restrains it, while for the next, it is a legacy that inspires them to soar high. Both are genuinely desi and do South Asia proud.
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| June 22, 2006 | |
The uniqueness of Amma
For a person, who speaks nothing but Malayalam, preaches no intricate
philosophy and claims no divinity, her following around the world is
nothing but a miracle.
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| February 15, 2006 | |
From golf partner to coup leader
It remains unclear whether Rabuka's time in India at the Staff College had a role to play in his anti-Fiji Indian feeling.
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| January 23, 2006 | |
The Man Who Knew Netaji
'He was convinced Netaji died in the air crash. If he had survived, he would have contacted Nairsan.'
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| September 21, 2005 | |
From Waldheim to Annan
They began as hot favourites of the US, but at one time or the other, fell out of favour.
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| August 12, 2005 | |
Development & dim sum
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati is best known for transforming the philosophy of development.
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| June 16, 2005 | |
The Nuclear straight hitter
'Elbaradei has not only learnt to work with India productively, but also developed a rapport with our nuclear scientists.'
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| June 15, 2005 | |
Our Man in Moscow
To me, somehow, Dhar matched Chanakya of my imagination, tall, handsome, intelligent and stylish. But there was nothing Machiavellian about him.
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| May 31, 2005 | |
The Fidel Castro I knew
'More than his ideology, Castro's personal charisma must be responsible for his longevity.'
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| May 24, 2005 | |
The charming diplomat
If there ever was a personification of all that is best in personal diplomacy, it was K P S Menon.
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| May 4, 2005 | |
India's honoured guest
'Only a great country could risk the wrath of China by giving refuge to the Tibetans.'
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| February 14, 2005 | |
A colossus who died lonely
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara loved his country, but saw it as his inheritance, which he had to run in his own way.
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| January 28, 2005 | |
A true friend of India
Steve Solarz's standing in the community and his general reputation as a friend of India helped advance our cause in Washington. He was not expected to be objective when it came to India, but his presentations were compelling and absorbing.
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