Advertisement

Help
You are here: Rediff Home » India » News » Columns
Search:  Rediff.com The Web
  Email this Page
Archives
January-December 2009 | November-December 2008 | September-October 2008 | July-August 2008 | May-June 2008 | March-April 2008 | January-February 2008 |

Click to view/hide more Archives

September 08, 2010
Harsh V Pant
Why India cannot take on China
'History and China's recent behaviour makes it clear that China will not rise peacefully.'

Archive          
Sanjay Jha
Why Singh is not King!
'What India needs more than anything else is an in-command Singh, who assiduously shepherds a difficult slippery path with good footwork and adroit balance. Instead we have a hamstrung leader struggling with a difficult diverse set of issues.'

Archive          
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd)
Chinese string of pearls could choke India
A regional power struggle between India and China, however muted be it, will be more and more evident as China pushes the envelope to be a greater global player. India must prepare for it, says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd)

Archive          
September 07, 2010
Virendra Kapoor: Poor Manmohan Singh!
September 06, 2010
S K Chatterji: AFSPA's demise will be a victory for terrorists
Sushant Sareen: Pakistan: How politics fuels Shia-Sunni divide
Bhupender Yadav: Some questions for 'tribal soldier' Rahul Gandhi
September 02, 2010
Amulya Ganguli: Why Sonia's fourth term is not a happy occasion
Rajeev Srinivasan: EVM row- Shooting the messenger won't help
M K Bhadrakumar: Pakistani floods- A win-win for the US?
September 01, 2010
S P Udayakumar: Is Russia bound by the Nuclear liability law?
August 28, 2010
Manoj Kumar and Lydia Powell: How the world perceives nuclear liability
August 27, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Why an India-Japan nuclear deal is essential
Manoj Kumar and Lydia Powell: The loopholes in the Nuclear Liability Bill
August 25, 2010
Manoj Kumar and Lydia Powell: Why a nuclear liability bill is essential
August 24, 2010
Virendra Kapoor: Kalmadi isn't the only one to blame for CWG mess
August 23, 2010
Gurmeet Kanwal: In Pakistan, the army is firmly in control
Wilson John: Commonwealth Games: Protecting Delhi's Metro
T P Sreenivasan: Stars to smile upon Shashi Tharoor after wedding
August 20, 2010
Colonel Dr Anil Athale (retd): How Kalam can help end Kashmir's cycle of violence
T P Sreenivasan: Why the world is not over the moon on Ban
August 17, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The abject failure of our civic bodies
August 17, 2010
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: This India of the young is brash, impatient
B S Prakash: India's austerity drive made a shaadi happen!
August 16, 2010
Virendra Kapoor: Can Sonia's family ever be wrong?
Seema Mustafa: Kashmir - Delhi still hasn't woken up
August 14, 2010
Sheela Bhatt: Freedom's just another word for Rasheeda
Sheba Thayil: Please, God, give us independence from what ails India
8 things India needs to do urgently
August 13, 2010
Dr A Gopalakrishnan: Nuclear Liability Bill: PM's Gift to the US
August 11, 2010
Gurmeet Kanwal: So, what will the Kashmiri people accept?
Gopal Krishna: Nuclear energy, inevitable disaster: Worth it?
August 09, 2010
Sanjay Jha: Corruption: Where is our outrage?
Virendra Kapoor: Time to drastically overhaul our Kashmir policy
Neerja Chowdhury: Telangana results send alarm signals to Congress
August 06, 2010
Himanshu Thakkar: Why is the UPA disregarding our rivers?
August 05, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Indian influence wanes in Afghanistan
July 30, 2010
Satish Chandra: Our language has let us down in Pakistan talks
Harsh V Pant: Cameron has made the right noises on India
July 29, 2010
Neerja Chowdhury: Differences on the rise within Congress
July 27, 2010
Sandeep Pandey: S M Qureshi, then and now
July 26, 2010
Dr K S Parthasarathy: Delhi's radioactive leak: The other side
Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd): Why India needs Myanmar on its side
July 23, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Forget the peace process with Pakistan!
July 22, 2010
B Raman: By criticising Pillai, Krishna has played into Qureshi's hands
T V R Shenoy: India's disappointing young leaders
July 21, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Deliver the change, Mr Prime Minister
July 19, 2010
Harsh V Pant: India sidelined in Afghanistan
Virendra Kapoor: A billion people, but where are the leaders?
T P Sreenivasan: Indian Shining in Islamabad
Neerja Chowdhury: Why Omar Abdullah has failed as chief minister
Satish Chandra: It would be an error to talk to Pakistan again
July 16, 2010
M K Bhadrakumar: Pakistan's generals don't want the India talks to succeed
B Raman: Lack of preparation hampered Indo-Pak talks
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: Can we move on from Pakistan, Mr Prime Minister?
July 14, 2010
Sushant Sareen: India-Pakistan: Dialogue without direction
Vivek Gumaste: Kashmir: Protests are fine, not motivated ones
B Raman: India, Pakistan must go the 3 plus 3 way
T P Sreenivasan: India-Pakistan talks: Futile quest for trust
July 12, 2010
B Raman: Why the Foreign Secretary met the Dalai Lama
July 09, 2010
T V R Shenoy: This is the plight of the honest govt official
July 08, 2010
Dinesh Kumar Mishra: A village at the mercy of the Bagmati, officials
July 02, 2010
Brahma Chellaney:Border talks: How India plays into China's hands
June 30, 2010
S K Chatterji: Why the army can fight in J&K but not Chhattisgarh
June 29, 2010
Mohammad Sajjad: Should Nitish Kumar get a second term?
June 28, 2010
Mohammad Sajjad: Should Nitish Kumar get a second term?
Aseem Chhabra: Recollecting Digvijay Singh, who read my hand
AV Rajwade: Will anyone be ever held accountable for Bhopal?
June 25, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Afghanistan- The US surge to nowhere
Srikanth Kondapalli: N-plants to Pak: Why China won't budge at the NSG
Praful Bidwai: GoM has failed to hold Dow's feet to the fire
June 24, 2010
B Raman: Afghanistan: US should change tactics not generals
Apoorvanand: Nitish Kumar wants to be Bihar Purush
June 23, 2010
Dr Nitish Priyadarshi: Jharkhand- The fire in the earth's belly
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Towards a more civil civic arrangement
T V R Shenoy: Too late for Nitish to mount moral high horse
June 22, 2010
K C Singh: In Pakistan, Chidambaram to face stark choices
Harsh V Pant: China-Pakistan nuclear deal: Why the surprise?
June 21, 2010
Rajeev Srinivasan: Is US considering a long-term stay in Afghanistan?
Kumkum Sen: Extraditing Anderson won't benefit Bhopal victims
B S Prakash: Why I am praying for Brazil to lift the Cup
June 18, 2010
Sanjay Kapoor: Rahul- Why the prince is reluctant to be king
June 17, 2010
Kandaswami Subramanian: Bhopal: The deception by Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals
Amulya Ganguli: The importance of being Rahul Gandhi
Nitin Desai: Naxalism: It's time to redeem the promise
June 16, 2010
Rajeev Srinivasan: India needs a relationship of equals with the US
June 14, 2010
Gopal Krishna: Saving democracy from the corporate veil
June 14, 2010
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd): Sinking hopes in the Korean peninsula
Shehla Masood: We need accountability on Panna tigers genocide
June 11, 2010
Praful Bidwai: India has learnt nothing from the Bhopal tragedy
T V R Shenoy: Is it too late to ask Arjun Singh about Bhopal?
June 09, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: What use is the Konkan Railway?
June 08, 2010
Harsh V Pant: US-India strategic dialogue: Move beyond symbolism
June 07, 2010
B Raman: Bhopal gas tragedy should be minutely documented
Shiv Shankar Menon: The new dimensions of global security
Gopal Krishna: Is the Bhopal catastrophe like a traffic crime?
B Raman: Why Dantewada's key to the battle against Maoists
T V R Shenoy: What will Mamata Banerjee do next?
June 04, 2010
Obama attempts to impart momentum to Indo-US ties
June 02, 2010
Rajeev Srinivasan: India: The Hanuman Syndrome
Gopal Krishna: Why the UID number project must be scrapped
May 31, 2010
D S Rajan: US accused of strategically encircling China
B Raman: Why Headley's interrogation is a charade
May 28, 2010
Brigadier S K Chatterji: An army officer recounts Canadian visa woes
May 27, 2010
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: Shashi Tharoor is being missed in South Block
T V R Shenoy: Who authorised the Raja tapes?
May 26, 2010
Harsh V Pant: UPA-II loses momentum as challenges mount
May 25, 2010
B Raman: Dr Singh's blind spots: Pakistan and Maoists
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: The prime minister doesn't have all the answers
May 24, 2010
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd): Nepalese woes require Indian support
May 21, 2010
Praful Bidwai: UPA-2: Time to change course
Neerja Chowdhury: Less proactive but Sonia sets agenda for UPA-2
May 20, 2010
Virendra Kapoor: A wasted year- The common man's woes only increased
Sonia Gandhi: Address the root causes of Naxalism
May 19, 2010
B Raman: US addressing intelligence gaps in Pakistan
May 18, 2010
B S Prakash: Does memory matter anymore?
T V R Shenoy: The UPA, a house divided
May 17, 2010
Tarun Vijay: Delhi sleeps while Manipur burns
Harsh V Pant: The larger issue behind Ramesh's outburst in China
Amulya Ganguli: UPA II is proving even worse than UPA I
Suhasini Haidar: Fear of public backlash restricts foreign policy
May 14, 2010
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd): SAARC: The Way Ahead
May 12, 2010
Shehla Masood: Roaring in China, sleeping in India
Rajeev Srinivasan: Why India is so full of charlatans
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why does India want to hide its war documents?
Colonel R Hariharan (retd): Why do we ignore our war dead?
Nitin Gokhale: Recalling Prabhakaran's end
May 11, 2010
Sandeep Pandey: How Jairam Ramesh has made a difference
May 10, 2010
M K Bhadrakumar: China breaks the Himalayan barrier
Gladson Dungdung: The State has alienated me, should I remain quiet?
Vivek Gumaste: The Kasab verdict alone is not enough
T V R Shenoy: The degeneration of India's universities
May 07, 2010
Praful Bidwai: What the radiation leak in Delhi means
T P Sreenivasan: Pakistan gets nuclear deal by proxy
Harsh V Pant: View - A muddled verdict from Britain
May 06, 2010
Sushant Sareen: Kasab's death will not bring any closure for India
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: Sentence delayed is sentence denied
Rajeev Srinivasan: The banality of evil
May 04, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Looking Beyond Kasab's Conviction
B Raman: Terror in Big Apple: A Pakistani hand?
May 03, 2010
B Raman: Kasab is living proof of Lashkar's role in 26/11
April 30, 2010
B Raman: Is US okay with China supplying N-reactors to Pak?
April 29, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Focus on China, not India-Pakistan rivalry
TP Sreenivasan: Madhuri Gupta maligns the Foreign Service
Pramod Kumar Buravalli: View- Communism is on the wane in India
B Raman: Madhuri case- Making an ass of ourselves
April 28, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Time to rethink the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
B Raman: Pakistan's IB is back in action
April 27, 2010
Dr Shanthie Mariet D''Souza and Dr Bibhu Prasad Routray: Army's expertise must be used to battle Maoists
B Raman: A mole in an Indian mission can do great damage
Vivek Gumaste: The Naxal problem: Failure of political leadership
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Time to change your newspaper
April 26, 2010

Rajeev Srinivasan: View- Fiddling while the country burns
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd): What India must do in Myanmar and how
Shyam G Menon: Why operation Green Hunt won't win the war
M K Bhadrakumar: India should robustly support Karzai
April 23, 2010
Tarun Vijay: Gadkari has arrived, the hard tasks begin now
April 22, 2010
Dr A Gopalakrishnan: Delhi radiation case: AEC, AERB also culpable
April 20, 2010
M D Riti: India's cryo-engine failure: Beginning not the end
April 19, 2010
Sandeep Pandey: Food Security Bill: Cause of elation or grief?
M K Bhadrakumar: Tharoor will make a great leader
Kalyani Shankar: The mistakes Shashi Tharoor made
Aseem Chhabra: Tharoor was made a sacrificial lamb
April 16, 2010
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd): Combating Maoists: Into battle sans leaders
B Raman: UN report on Benazir silent on Rehman Malik
April 15, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Foreign policy: India's diffidence problem
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why we don't need urban political families
T V R Shenoy: The nexus of sports, business, and politics
April 14, 2010
Sheela Bhatt: Has the buck finally stopped for Chidambaram?
April 13, 2010
D S Rajan: Is China sympathetic to the Maoists?
April 12, 2010
B S Raghavan: There is a much simpler answer to Maoism
T P Sreenivasan: Red Lines at the Washington Summit
April 09, 2010
Praful Bidwai: Big Brother is watching you!
April 08, 2010
B Raman: An urgent plan to deal with Maoist insurgency
April 07, 2010
Colonel Anil Athale (retd): The Naxals must be defeated, here's how
April 06, 2010
B Raman: Why Naxals can easily set-up deadly ambushes
B Raman: Attack on US consulate - The Afghanistan of Pakistan
April 01, 2010
B S Prakash: Dancing alone at the Carnival
Raymond E Vickery, Jr: Why the US must not alienate India
March 31, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The trivialisation of our public debates
March 30, 2010
M K Bhadrakumar: View- Obama kickstarts India's nuclear deal
March 29, 2010
B Raman: Al Qaeda-backed Chechen separatists behind Moscow terror
K Subrahmanyam: India can't object to US sleeping with the enemy
T P Sreenivasan: Kayani and Qureshi did not go empty handed
March 26, 2010
Vivek Gumaste: The genocide we and the world forgot
Brigadier (retd) S K Chatterji: Why India needs to nurture Bangladesh
B Raman: Pak-US- An opportunistic tactical dialogue
March 25, 2010
T V R Shenoy: Why the women's bill is fatally flawed
March 22, 2010
Manjeet Kripalani: It's our turn to help in Haiti
M K Bhadrakumar: The burnt-out case of David Headley
March 19, 2010
Praful Bidwai: The UPA's second great nuclear folly
B Raman: India should now focus on Tahawwur Rana
March 15, 2010
Sharad Joshi: The Women's Lottery Bill
T P Sreenivasan: The unfinished business of the nuclear deal
March 12, 2010
Neerja Chowdhury: Sonia has sent a powerful message to Indian women
March 11, 2010
AMU: Who will stem the rot?
Harsh V Pant: China slows its defence spending, on paper
March 09, 2010
Nitin Gokhale: Chinese media - Half a step towards openness?
E D Mathew: Tharoor is a victim of Hinglish?
March 04, 2010
Vivek Gumaste: Pakistan conundrum - Dealing with an unholy trinity
March 03, 2010
Rajeev Srinivasan: India's negotiations: Only form, no content
March 02, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Defence Budget - In need of direction
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd): Global jihad's evolving strategy: Focus Al Qaeda
B Raman: It's futile to expect Saudi help on terror
February 26, 2010
M K Bhadrakumar: India, Pakistan talk -- to catch America's eye
February 24, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The Illegals- Mumbai's Bangladeshis
February 23, 2010
Harsh V Pant: India's isolation is not good news for the West
B S Prakash: Looking for meaning in multilateralism
February 17, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: A humbled bully, double standards and people's will
Harsh V Pant: The US-Iran confrontation continues anew
February 12, 2010
Harsh V Pant: Bollywood's missed opportunity
Nitin A Gokhale: Nasty turn of events in Sri Lanka
February 11, 2010
Colonel Dr Anil Athale (retd): Peace with Pakistan: Chasing a mirage
Sujatha Singh: Attacks on Indians- Time to go beyond rhetoric
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: The answer, my friend, is blowing in the Hind
February 10, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Migrants do more good than harm to Mumbai
Satish Chandra: India-Pakistan talks: A counter-productive option
February 09, 2010
Pramod Kumar Buravalli: Why India's military needs an urgent update
Arfa Khanum Sherwani: Main victims of terror in Pakistan are its women
Bharath Gopalaswamy and Harsh V Pant: Does India need anti-satellite capability?
February 08, 2010
Satish Chandra: London conference on Afghanistan: Implications for India
TP Sreenivasan: Substance lies in talks and not in talks on talks
B Raman: Revamping the internal security machinery
February 05, 2010
Praful Bidwai: What resumption of talks with Pak means for India
B Raman: Indo-Pak dialogue: Time to expand basket of issues of concern
February 04, 2010
Brigadier (retd) S K Chatterji: Pakistan remains pivotal to an Afghan solution
B Raman: The Taliban is down but not out
Bharat Verma: India unprepared and unwilling to defend democracy
February 03, 2010
B Shantanu: An open letter to Balasaheb from a Marathi Manoos
February 02, 2010
Vivek Gumaste: Why Pakistan can never be a great neighbour
February 01, 2010
T V R Shenoy: Why transparency is critical for the judiciary
Gurmeet Kanwal and Samarjit Ghosh: India ignored at Afghanistan summit
January 27, 2010
Nirupama Rao: View: India harbours no aggressive designs on Pak
Harsh V Pant: View: There's still time for Obama to redeem his presidency
January 25, 2010
B Raman: An open letter to the new NSA
Matthew Schneeberger: Mumbai a Global City? Not in this lifetime!
January 22, 2010
B Raman: Narayanan: A titan of the intelligence community
January 21, 2010
Nitin Gokhale: Be ready for a long haul in Afghanistan
B Raman: Gates' Delhi visit: Strategic course-correction
January 20, 2010
Rajeev Srinivasan: Khost massacre: a point of inflexion in Obama's war?
Claude Arpi: Why India should not get too close to China
January 19, 2010
Lalit Koul: The night from hell, 20 years later
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Is cycling the answer to our urban woes?
January 15, 2010
B Raman: What India can learn from Headley charge-sheet
January 13, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Search for aesthetics in Mumbai's facade
T V R Shenoy: Much-maligned Bihar does better than Kerala
Satish Chandra: Why India must push for better ties with Bangladesh
January 12, 2010
Harsh V Pant: India's foreign policy comes of age
January 07, 2010
D S Rajan: How China views India's new defence doctrine
January 05, 2010
Colonel Anil A Athale (retd): How India, China can mastermind the Asian century
Vivek Gumaste: The Ruchika case and the banality of evil
Archives
January-December 2009 | November-December 2008 | September-October 2008 | July-August 2008 | May-June 2008 | March-April 2008 | January-February 2008 | November-December 2007 | September-October 2007 | June-August 2007 | April-May 2007 | February-March 2007 | January 2007 | November-December 2006 | October 2006 | September 2006 | August 2006 | July 2006 | June 2006 | May 2006 | April 2006 | March 2006 | February 2006 | January 2006 | December 2005 | November 2005 | October 2005 | September 2005 | August 2005 | July 2005 | June 2005 | May 2005 | April 2005 | March 2005 | January-February 2005 | December 2004 | November 2004 | October 2004 | August - September 2004 | July 2004 | June 2004 | May 2004 | April 2004 | March 2004 | February 2004 | January 2004 | December 2003 | November 2003 | October 2003 | Sep 2003 | Aug 2003 | July 2003 | June 2003 | May 2003 | April 2003 | March 2003 | February 2003 | January 2003 | December 2002
Get news updates: What's this?
Advertisement
© 2009 Rediff.com India Limited. All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer | Feedback