Barack Obama should negotiate with Osama bin Laden!

How does it sound, stupid? Well, that’s exactly how America sounds when it advises India to negotiate with Pakistan. What al-Qaeda is to the United States Pakistan is to India. If only Americans could understand this simple fact, negotiations would be much simpler for Indo-US relations. Probably the US policy makers don’t care about India’s [...]

What is the end game in Afghanistan?

The tragedy of Afghanistan continues and is likely to go beyond the upcoming elections. The presidential election in Afghanistan is scheduled to be held on August 20, 2009. The principal contenders for the presidential post are Hamid Karzai (incumbent president), Dr Abdullah Abdullah (former foreign minister) and Dr Ashraf Ghani (former finance minister). None has [...]

The ongoing ‘Akhand Path’ in Pakistan!

The continuous recitation (without any break) of Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmir and Kashmir for the past 60 years is like an ongoing Akhand Path in a pathetic ‘State of Pakistan’. You can not have any conversation with a Pakistani without inserting the “core issue of Kashmir”! What is the point in having a dialogue if [...]

When do we change the name of ‘Indian Ocean’?

Why did we have to change the name of the ‘Indian Subcontinent’ to ‘South Asia’? Then why should we not change the name of ‘Indian Ocean’ to say ‘South Asian Ocean? Better still, we could change it to ‘Chindian Ocean’ since China is going to rule the world in any case. But then what happens [...]

China is emerging as a major “loudmouth” of Asia

China would never match the erstwhile Soviet Union; forget about emerging as a world-power. The United States of America always needs a rival to compare its prowess and for that reason they first hype-up a potential adversary and then go all out and demolish it. China is too dumb to understand this simple superpower game. [...]

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