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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

Sunday Levity: Obelix on appeasement
| 22nd Aug 2010

Newspapering over nuclear weapons
| 22nd Aug 2010

Your own private foreign policy
Governments are constrained by realpolitik. They follow the grammar of power. Civil society does not have the same constraints. It is free to speak the language of values. | 17th Aug 2010

Post-deluge Pakistan
| 17th Aug 2010

Pax Indica: Your own private foreign policy
| 17th Aug 2010

Three thoughts on Independence Day
| 15th Aug 2010

Letter to the Jakarta Post
| 14th Aug 2010

When BlackBerry went to New Delhi
| 13th Aug 2010

Why have one Afghanistan
| 10th Aug 2010

Double talk on double-digit
| 7th Aug 2010

Cultivating authority, evading responsibility
| 4th Aug 2010

Pax Indica: East of Singapore
| 3rd Aug 2010

Militants, disaster relief and policy
| 3rd Aug 2010

East of Singapore
Regardless of what the United States does, an Indian strategic commitment in East Asia will strengthen its overall negotiation position with China. | 2nd Aug 2010

The many myths that Yang shattered
| 2nd Aug 2010

A strategic shift towards extremism
| 30th Jul 2010

Cameron comes with a different mindset
| 28th Jul 2010

Obama wasn’t there. Kayani was.
| 26th Jul 2010

The Blocked Sewage Pipe Theory of military dictatorships
| 23rd Jul 2010

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