What appeared to be a generous act of friendship was, in truth, a manoeuvre within a much larger strategic game. The United States used the 1962 war not just to aid India but to test how far it......
'What the US appears to be doing is to force India to be "the buyer of last resort", on whom their products can be dumped, 1.4 billion people have to eat something, so why not eat American corn?'......
'Geopolitically and diplomatically it's a very difficult situation for India.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff Not since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger has India been berated......
'We have,' says Anvar Alikhan, 'proved right Winston Churchill, when he warned in 1947 that 'Power will go to rascals, rogues, freebooters...'Illustration: Uttam Ghosh The best of times, the worst......
The competition for the worst or most perilous 10 years has always been between the 1960s and the 1980s, points out Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: An Indian soldier walks past destroyed Pakistani tanks in......
In a major move to push tourism in the hill states and counter Chinese expansion in the Tibetan region, the Railways ministry has prepared a blueprint to set up an ambitious 480 kilometre Manali -......
Israel is an incredibly innovative nation. It ranks the highest in the world in the per capita number of patents filed, notes R Gopalakrishnan. One response to my last InnoColumn was......
Image: Norman Borlaug rescued India from a severe food crisis. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters The work of Norman Borlaug, who helped save billions from starvation, is worth recalling, especially......
The Indian economy is in doldrums. Markets are extending losses and rupee has touched a new low. Though the government is trying to allay investors’ fears with reforms and foreign direct......