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What this criticism of the UID reveals
| 21st Oct 2010

On the East Asian dance floor
It is important to bear in mind that the club only provides the dance floor. India will have to court its dancing partners on an individual basis. | 17th Oct 2010

The Asian Balance: On the East Asian dance floor
| 17th Oct 2010

Work permits for Bangladeshi migrants
Illegal immigration can only be tackled by allowing legal migration | 12th Oct 2010

Pax Indica: Work permits for Bangladeshi migrants
| 12th Oct 2010

Hanging around the Y-junction
| 11th Oct 2010

India’s Pakistan problem is over
India’s problem lies with the powers that stand in the way of Pakistan's re-invention: primarily, the United States, China and Saudi Arabia. | 27th Sep 2010

The Indira Doctrine is dead
| 24th Sep 2010

INI Bangalore Meetup
| 23rd Sep 2010

How important is India to the Indonesian economy?
| 23rd Sep 2010

Restoring order in Jammu & Kashmir
| 21st Sep 2010

South-east Asia is India’s neighbourhood
Rebuilding the economic, cultural and political relationships that India historically shared with the countries and the peoples to its East has never been more important to our future than it is today. | 20th Sep 2010

Not Sun Tzu
| 20th Sep 2010

The Asian Balance: Recognising good neighbours
| 19th Sep 2010

Don’t hype the iMuj
| 19th Sep 2010

The wolf in the cabbage patch
| 16th Sep 2010

Pax Indica: Five neighbourhood paradoxes
| 15th Sep 2010

Five paradoxes of the neighbourhood
The consensus, confidence and coherence that is visible in India’s dealings with the world’s powers is conspicuously missing in its dealings with its immediate neighbours: Because neighbourhood policy is trapped in five paradoxes. | 14th Sep 2010

Strategic trust-building follies
| 1st Sep 2010

Pax Indica: We are not South Asian
| 1st Sep 2010

The unbearable silliness of calling yourself ‘South Asian’
There’s no such thing as a South Asian cultural, civilisational or political identity. Nor is Indian culture and civilisation the exclusive property of the citizens of the Republic of India. | 31st Aug 2010

USAID’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa mistake
| 26th Aug 2010

Liability-shiability absurdity
| 24th Aug 2010

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