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China’s costly show of brightness
Beijing is aware that stronger India-US partnership in East Asia is not in China's interests. It is unclear, though, whether China's leaders realise that they can avoid such an outcome by stepping back from the numerous Indian red lines it crossed in 2010. | 15th Dec 2010

Announcing the Takshashila Roundtable Conclave - Bangalore
| 11th Dec 2010

Assessing Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal
Pakistan has a nuclear arsenal within a nuclear arsenal hidden away from US surveillance | 8th Dec 2010

Embassy Delhi comes out looking smart
| 2nd Dec 2010

Like China in a china shop
| 1st Dec 2010

What’s the Korean for Parakram?
| 29th Nov 2010

The return of information silos
| 29th Nov 2010

Pax Indica: Will the Ayatollah step behind the line?
| 25th Nov 2010

Will the Ayatollah step behind the line?
By including Kashmir in his list of nations that needed rescuing Khamenei breached the defensive perimeter of India's foreign policy | 23rd Nov 2010

Policing the Indian Ocean
India's dispatch of navy ships to secure shipping lanes is a sign of greater willingness to use its power to contribute to international security. | 15th Nov 2010

The Asian Balance: Policing the Indian Ocean
| 14th Nov 2010

More makers of modern India
| 13th Nov 2010

Obama and the K word
His thinking on the Kashmir issue matters, because if he sticks to his dogmatic insistence on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by the middle of next year, he will face internal pressures to buy a face-saving exit from the war. | 9th Nov 2010

Some bollocks
| 9th Nov 2010

Pax Indica: Obama and the “K” word
| 9th Nov 2010

Dissolve the rogue UN human rights council
| 9th Nov 2010

What are they smoking in the Pentagon?
| 6th Nov 2010

Holiday Levity: Jimmy Jimmy in Tbilisi
| 4th Nov 2010

Op-ed in The National: The Obama celebrations
| 2nd Nov 2010

It’s not transactional, stupid!
| 2nd Nov 2010

Look who needs the Indian state!
| 31st Oct 2010

Religion is the missing ingredient in India’s soft power
The idea of secularism is meaningless in the amoral world of international relations. What is an excellent principle to order our diverse, plural nation is a millstone around India's neck when it comes to foreign policy. | 26th Oct 2010

Pax Indica: Use religion in foreign policy
| 26th Oct 2010

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