T P Sreenivasan

From Stalin to Putin, a man of all seasons

Yuli Vorontsov will be mourned in India by many, who knew him as a sophisticated and friendly diplomat.

Futile bloodshed in Myanmar

Myanmar's history of the last 47 years or more makes it extremely unlikely that change will come through a popular uprising. The military is so well entrenched and the people are so patient that change has to come through a process of reconciliation

Leave the nuke deal to the voter

'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.'

IAEA and NSG will be no Cakewalk

The US has promised all help to persuade their friends and allies to accommodate India, but India will have to work bilaterally with each of the 45 members, as implementation of the guidelines is an individual rather than a collective responsibility.

The n-deal: US' Dhritarashtra's embrace?

'The new phase of intensive engagement with the United States will have its own challenges and rewards.'

Hamid Ansari: 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.'

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.'

N-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.'

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

'The twenty-first century is India's to lose'

Luce conveys his sense of bafflement that a country of such contradictions should do so well in spite of the diversity or because of it.

Pranab's Iran visit a signal to the US

'It sent a clear message to the Americans that despite the Hyde Act, India would deal with Iran on the basis of its own lights.'

Indo-US roller coaster on the brink Again

Ironically, the opponents of the deal in the US are concerned about the narrow aspects of non-proliferation, while its critics in India are fighting the larger issue of US domination.

Nalini By Day, Nancy By Night

Nalini By Day, Nancy By Night will be a trailblazer for a number of movies.

The Namesake is excellent

Tharoor bowed out with enhanced prestige

Padmini, the Eternal Star

In Havana there was more give than take

Remembering Ayyappa Paniker

Jaswant Singh: The man behind the book

Desis in Action