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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part VII

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in the evening of the first day of balloting on May21, 1991, stunned the nation and the world. We were in Syracuse, New York at that time, everyone looked shocked and apprehensive. I was not all that shocked because Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi were busy playing with [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part VI

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Vishwanath Pratap Singh and his National Front formed a minority government on December 2, 1989 with outside support from Bharatiya Janata Party and the communists from the left. This was not a viable government to begin with. Just the opposition to Rajiv Gandhi was not enough reason to hold these disparate groups of over-ambitious politicians [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part V

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

The return of Indira Gandhi in many ways was a curse on India. She did learn a lot during her less than three years in wilderness but mostly the wrong things. She introduced convicted criminals into the Indian politics and India is still paying a heavy price for that. She nurtured and financed LTTE (Liberation [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part IV

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Some of us who were born in 1940s did not feel the impact of India’s independence. We felt as if the political power was transferred from the British Empire to the Nehru-Gandhi dispensation. Jawaharlal Nehru was a democrat as long as he was the undisputed leader. Indira Gandhi had no such pretensions, she ruled over [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part III

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi defined India’s foreign policy like no other politician before her. She was not diffident of openly supporting the repressive regimes of the then Soviet Union, Cuba and any other communist country. She was not much enchanted by the communist China. She projected a robust national defense policy thereby keeping an expansionist [...]

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