The call on Monday between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a clear signal of the strategic importance of US-India relations. What stands out, however, is how both leaders framed the relationship ~ not just in terms of bilateral benefits, but as a partnership vital for global stability and prosperity.
In a significant departure from its earlier policy focus, the Union government is stepping back from aggressive privatisation efforts and is instead investing heavily in reviving ailing state-run enterprises.
Recent judicial rulings in India have reignited debates about the fairness and consistency of capital punishment.
Almost every day, we read news about ghastly and fatal crashes on the roads across the country. It is a fact that for most of us, a road journey, short or long, is no longer safe in India.
The growing maritime partnership between India and Indonesia reflects a broader regional alignment to counter increasing Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea.
It is unprecedented that most lawmakers of the party attended the official ceremony to memorialize the civil revolt, which has long been associated with the liberal Democratic Party of Korea.
The Turkish President had said last week that his country would “not view positively” the applications of the two countries for membership of the alliance. He confined his criticism to Sweden, which has been welcoming Kurdish refugees.
Unlike several of his predecessors and to a decidedly greater degree, Donald Trump, the incumbent at the White House has been almost exceptionally prompt in castigating what they call “white supremacy” in the context of the recent killing of ten blacks by a white in Buffalo, near New York.
The purpose of formation of Nato immediately after World War II was to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. Was there any need for this military alliance to continue even after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and collapse of the Warsaw Pact alliance? If the spirit of cooperation that was seen during the negotiations for reunification of Germany had prevailed, successive US administrations would not have been so keen on Nato's enlargement immediately after the disintegration of USSR.
Apart from the satisfaction of being in conversation with writers and artists, I sometimes, as a happy bonus, had a walk or two with the likes of novelist I Allan Sealy and travel writer Bill Aitken after the interview was over.
