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Sergei Gor: His Master’s Voice

Sergei Gor: His Master’s Voice

Dr Jaishankar’s throwaway reaction that he’d `read about it’ could be both sardonic and genuine. The minister must have read about it in Truth...

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Point Blank: Luck Plays A Huge Role As India Struggles To Script A Coherent Foreign Policy

We have a grand strategic relationship with the United States. It is the grandest of all the strategic relationships we have, the showpiece, the role...

22.08.2025 10

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The Reality Of Donald Trump And The Art Of Making The Deal With It

The more Trump asserts playing peacemaker, the more real it becomes to him. That means, the more it is denied, the more worked up Trump gets and the...

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Hitchhikers Guide To Trump’s Galaxy

Trump goes and says things that our Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson just can’t, not while the Parliament is on and in an unvarnished...

03.08.2025 10

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Torn Glass Windows And The Metaphysics Of Op Sindoor

Last week, Ajit Doval spoke at IIT Madras with Director V Kamakoti in the audience. Dr Kamakoti, a respected scientist, recently informed us about...

14.07.2025 10

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Even Film Plot More Believable Than Operation Sindoor Playback

Imagine while the nation was thinking that the war was going swimmingly, our pilots were actually twiddling their thumbs.

07.07.2025 30

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Point Blank: Trump’s Indecent Proposal To Munir At The White House

The question to ask is, if there is another terrorist incident in India today, where does that leave Trump and Munir? Where does that leave all our...

21.06.2025 10

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Operation Sindoor Truth Has Dawned On Bogota, Then Why Dili-Dally?

Both the composition of the delegations that have been formed after Operation Sindoor to canvass support for New Delhi and their destinations point...

03.06.2025 20

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India-Pakistan Ceasefire: Trump And The Rocky Road Ahead From Pahalgam

The Prime Minister promised that he would go to the ends of the earth to find and punish the perpetrators of that dastardly attack. The fact is, after...

12.05.2025 10

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India Should Seize Moment: Offer Peacekeepers To Ukraine To Strengthen Global Role

This is the logical corollary of having the status of a quasi ally conferred by Washington which speaks of advancing military co-operation in...

20.02.2025 10

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Return Of Donald Trump As US President & The New World Disorder

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been received with a mixture of both anticipation and trepidation over what lies in store during his...

24.01.2025 8

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How Jimmy Carter And Morarji Desai Navigated A Tumultuous Era In Indo-US Relations

The peanut farmer from Georgia and the austere Gujarati, both owed their elections to major political trauma -- Carter to Watergate, and Desai to...

31.12.2024 3

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US Poll Analysis: Comfort Zone For Sure But With Pinpricks

A man like Trump, who will come into the White House with his country emphatically behind him five years later, will probably be more impatient,...

06.11.2024 6

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Reset: Brick-By-Brick

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday took the first formal step towards normalising ties between India and...

24.10.2024 3

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India-Canada Diplomatic Row: Just The Tip Of An Iceberg

The nearly eight-month investigation had revealed Indian hand behind intimidation, harassment, extortion and, among other things, homicides, for...

16.10.2024 3

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PM Modi’s Fuzzy Peace Path: Navigating The Diplomatic Minefield From Moscow To Kyiv Amid Russia-Ukraine War

The Prime Minister went touting the line that he has been for some time that this is the era of peace, not of war, and every time he says it again,...

28.08.2024 1

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J&K Assembly Elections 2024: Delhi's Strategy Unravels With Abrogation Fallout, Unfulfilled Promises And Rising Tensions

As Prime Minister Modi makes his balancing trip to Ukraine, here is something for him to think about: Maybe it is time to send his eighty year old...

17.08.2024 3

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India Unlikely To Bend Backwards On Asylum

Mumbai: It is unlikely that New Delhi will go overboard to give an asylum to Sheikh Hasina, who has made an untidy exit from Bangladesh, having...

06.08.2024 2

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