My last post was over a year back and was titled “Time to shut down this blog?” My answer would only be partly apparent from my lack of posts …I didn’t abandon the blog completely, but got involved in a host of new activities from twittering, to branching out into research on cyber-security. My intention [...]
God knows I haven’t been paying enough attention to this blog…my blog dashboard informs me that the last time I updated it was 51 days ago. To use the cliche, time certainly flies. Many reasons for the inattention, chief of which was that I was busy organising 30 lectures for future foreign service professionals. But [...]
Ambassador Karl Inderfurth, widely tipped to be the next US Ambassador to India, was in Congress on the 26th of February to testify before the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia at a Hearing on Building a Strategic Partnership:U.S.-India Relations in the Wake of Mumbai. His views were pretty much gung ho [...]
I just came across this lecture by FBI Director Robert F. Mueller III which he delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations. Probably because this was just a few days before he was to wing his way to Delhi, he began his remarks with reference to the Mumbai attacks and the involvement of the FBI. [...]
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 [...]
The US Army Chief of Staff, Gen George Casey, is reportedly up on the Siachen Glacier, the highest battle field in the world to get an understanding of how the Indian Army conducts mountain warfare. This has expectedly, (or unexpectedly, according to some) evoked protest from the Pakistanis. Thus would be the second protest in [...]
