Articles By Prakash Nanda
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...
Rebuff the blackmail over Sri Lanka
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
By the time these lines are read by the readers, one hopes that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would have taken a clear and firm decision to attend the Commonwealth summit at Sri Lankan capital...
Understanding Nawaz Sharif
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
In the face of the recent revelations by well-placed sources that the Manmohan Singh government has been underplaying a series of border intrusions by and effective loss of Indian territories to...
The avoidable political storm
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 26 Sep , 2013
Former Army Chief V K Singh is again in news. Of course, one may ask when he was not in news. He had a stormy innings as the Army Chief( March 2010 – May 2012), during which not only he...
Cutting the Syrian knot
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 12 Sep , 2013
A war on Syria with disastrous consequences for the rest of the world has presumably been avoided. The Obama Administration was all set for launching the war, ostensibly as a punishment for the...
Engineering Terror
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2013
Abdul Karim Tunda Two dreaded Indian terrorists – Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal – have been apprehended recently near Indo-Nepal border. Both of them had developed significant Pakistani...
Sharif: Pakistan’s next Prime Minister?
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 09 May , 2013
The other day while watching noted television journalist Karan Thapar’ s “Devil’s Advocate” programme, I was impressed by Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif’s “sincere” assurance that if...
Uncomfortable questions on land-swapping with Bangladesh
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2013
Pakistan has done it again. In its continuing hybrid war against India(about which I have already written in this column), two terrorists belonging to Hizbul Mujahedeen, which is based in...
Pakistan’s Korean link
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
North Korea, arguably the world’s most dangerous totalitarian country, has recommended a range of 28 hairstyles for its citizens, claiming that they are “the most comfortable” styles and capable...
Revisiting the Defence Acquisitions
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 15 Feb , 2013
Predictably, the present scam involving the VVIP chopper deal that has surfaced following the arrest of key officials of the firm that produces Augusta Westland -101 choppers in Italy has been...
Pakistan’s Hybrid War
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 10 Jan , 2013
A peculiarly important news item that I came across while writing this column (January 10) is about the Manmohan Singh government’s decision to implement the visa-on-arrival facility at the...
The Maldivian Shock
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
While writing the history of Indian diplomacy 25 years hence, any dispassionate historian will agree that the Manmohan Singh government’s neighbourhood policy has been a monumental failure. It...
Maoists as political prisoners?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 Sep , 2012
Two recent judicial pronouncements form West Bengal Courts have very dangerous implications for the country’s security and integrity. The first one was by the High Court and second was by a...