Articles By Prakash Nanda
Operation Bluestar: The British connection
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 05 Jun , 2017
There seems to be an avoidable controversy over the British connection in the unfortunate Operation Bluestar in June 1984 that saw the Indian Army entering the sacred Golden Temple to flush out...
Towards a Sustainable Defence Industry
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Jan , 2017
Last fortnight, this magazine, and digital newspaper Bharat Niti, organised, in association with Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) a national conference on Defence...
A SAARC sans Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 05 Nov , 2016
In the following pages, a regular contributor to this magazine, who happens to be veteran journalist of the country, has described why the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)...
Enemies of India’s nuclear power
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Dec , 2015
Supposedly among America’s “oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organizations”, The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) has over the last one week, carried four...
Thinking Beyond Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 17 Jul , 2015
Many friends and colleagues have wondered why I have not commented on the recent parleys between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at Ufa in Russia last...
Another partition?
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 30 May , 2015
The other day I was stunned to hear from a close confidant of former Bihar Chief Minister and union railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav that unless somebody like Narendra Modi became the Prime...
Why Russia still matters
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting India in the second week of December for what will be the 15th annual summit between the two countries. He is scheduled to address, during his stay at...
The 1962 lessons
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 20 Oct , 2014
China invaded India in 1962. Though there is a view that the exact date of invasion was October 10, the most acceptable one is October 20, 1962. The war ended on November 19, 1962, following the...
Sardar Patel’s Foreign Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
Now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured that the country “acknowledges” the contributions of India’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel towards...
Beyond India-China Bonhomie
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 26 Sep , 2014
How does one rate Chinese President Xi Jinping’s just concluded three-day visit to India? If one goes by the body language of the Chinese President and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Understanding the Article 370
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 26 May , 2014
The recent suggestion of the Gujarat chief minister and BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at a rally in Jammu that the nation should debate the usefulness of the Article 370 of...
Is India Scared of China?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2014
Ms Annette Lu, the Vice President of the Republic of China, better known as Taiwan, is still finding it hard to believe that the Vajpayee government did not allow her to visit the earthquake...
Indian Foreign Policy under Modi
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 07 May , 2014
Speech by Prakash Nanda at Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne, on May 6, 2013 First of all, I am grateful to the Australia -India Institute for inviting me and providing a great...
Dalai Lama is India's boon, not bane
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2014
New Delhi, India – Is the Dalai Lama’s presence in India a major impediment to the growth of normal relations between India and China? To put the question differently, would growing tensions...
Revisiting India’s nuclear doctrine
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2014
In its manifesto for 2014 general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised to review India’s nuclear doctrine. But does India really have a proper nuclear doctrine in strict...
What is Modi’s military vision?
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 13 Mar , 2014
Recently I had written in these pages on the importance of Narendra Modi’s strategic vision. That was dominated by the theme of foreign policy. But what about Modi’s military vision? This...
What is Modi’s strategic vision?
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 27 Feb , 2014
BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is slowly uncovering his foreign policy vision. The other day while campaigning in Arunachal Pradesh he expressed his concerns over “Chinese...
Good Governance and Foreign Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 30 Jan , 2014
As had been the practice with his predecessors, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has started the exercise of rewarding or taking interests of his close civilian officers before demitting office....
Islamic Terror and American Dualism
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2014
The other day I went to the New Delhi-based Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, with which I am associated in some way, to hear Professor Stephen P Cohen, the leading American expert on the...
Refusing to learn from Mumbai attacks
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2013
It is five years since that dreadful night of November 26, 2008, which saw 10 terrorists making an amphibious landing onto the jetties of Mumbai, and proceeding to carry out sophisticated and...