MK Bhadrakumar

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India's BRICS moment is slow in coming

India's BRICS moment is slow in coming

Rediff.com   25 Mar 2013

Evidently, something has gone awry in India's regional strategies. Yet, one feels tempted to call this India's "BRICS moment". The Durban summit will show how far India is prepared to go in a new direction. MK Bhadrakumar examines

Wanted: An ambassador to Russia

Wanted: An ambassador to Russia

Rediff.com   26 Dec 2012

A course correction is urgently needed to arrest and reverse the free fall of the Indian-Russian relationship through the past decade, says MK Bhadrakumar

US blinks but Pakistan won't celebrate

US blinks but Pakistan won't celebrate

Rediff.com   5 Jul 2012

Pakistan's decision to reopen transit routes for Nato convoys holds big implications for the future trajectory of the US-Pakistan relationship and regional security -- and for Pakistan's domestic politics, says MK Bhadrakumar

A win-win India-Pakistan project

A win-win India-Pakistan project

Rediff.com   22 Mar 2012

This is an opportune moment in the geopolitics of the region for India to think along the medium and long-term direction of creating underpinnings of a cooperative relationship with Pakistan, says MK Bhadrakumar

'The Arab Spring is in great distress'

'The Arab Spring is in great distress'

Rediff.com   15 Feb 2012

Former diplomat MK Bhadrakumar delivered a keynote address -- The Arab spring: The region and India -- at an international seminar held in Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. Here's the complete text

Surreal setting for Dr Singh-Obama talks in Bali

Surreal setting for Dr Singh-Obama talks in Bali

Rediff.com   14 Nov 2011

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would have his tete-a-tete with Obama in Bali in a surreal setting, says MK Bhadrakumar, and draws comparisons to the US-China encounter in Honolulu

A kafir among the Wahhabis

A kafir among the Wahhabis

Rediff.com   28 Jan 2011

Ustad Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, Afghan president Hamid Karzai's first choice as the speaker of the new Afghan parliament, is at once the perfect bridge the latter needs to reach out extensively in the Islamic world and Pakistan, says former diplomat MK Bhadrakumar, possibly the first and last India to have met Sayyaf in his native village