Looks like it’s the Indian Navy that’s coming down with a headache. Media reports quote a Thai national as saying that what the Indian Navy sank was no pirate mother ship but his fishing vessel which had been captured by the pirates. The Navy’s denied this and there are insinuations that the Thai national is [...]
As the Navy basks in the glow of its successful actions in Somalia leading to congratulations pouring in from across the world, the civilian bureaucracy and the political leadership at the helm of affairs in Delhi have been running helter-skelter trying to figure out how to prevent existing power equations changing as a result of [...]
The story of Clinton being appointed special envoy on Kashmir swept across the front pages of the newspapers here on November 5, just a day after the elections. The gist was that President Clinton had been sounded out on becoming special envoy on Kashmir, and the timing of the reports was such that it almost [...]
The news coming out of Washington is that Hillary Clinton has been offered the post of Secretary of State. As Andrew Sullivan puts it in the Daily Dish, this would be an inspired idea and “pure Obama”. I would second that…though Obama must have been under a lot of pressure to make the ticket an [...]
TimesNow TV is reporting that the Indian Navy has repulsed an attack by Somali pirates on an Indian merchant navy ship in the Gulf of Eden. Navy commandoes were rushed over via helicopter after the cargo vessel, owned by the Great Eastern Shipping Company, radioed an SOS. According to other news reports, the commandos were [...]
As I look at the results of the US elections coming in, and Obama’s moment, I suddenly feel envious of the American people. It is not often in one’s lifetime that one can be a part of such a historic moment. For us Indians, the last such moment was Independence, and even that moment was [...]
One of the problems with being an analyst on Indo-US relations is that every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he’s an expert thanks to the blanket coverage that the US receives in the Indian media. This coverage has increased in direct proportion to a number of factors, including globalisation, improved India-US relations, the roller-coaster ride [...]
