With temperatures and tempers flaring on the sub-continent, the respective Indian and Pakistani lobby groups in the United States have not been far behind in adding their voices to the fracas. Indian American lobby groups came up with the Washington Chalo (Let’s March on Washington) program, echoing the Delhi Chalo war cry of Subhas Chandra [...]
One doesn’t quite know what to post after an attack like the one on Bombay. The terror attacks have been termed as India’s 9/11 and I find the analogy quite apt as it exposed the utter unpreparedness of the authorities. As a leading columnist put it, India is disgraced by Mumbai Failure. Though it seemed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
