Articles By Prakash Nanda
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...
Time to say Good Bye to Prithvi Missiles?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 21 Sep , 2012
Recently I attended a round-table symposium on how “Missile transparency” could be an important confidence building measure (CBM) between India and Pakistan. It was organised by the New...
China humiliates India by offering cash tips
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Sep , 2012
How does one view the tips (“gift”) of Rs. 50000 that General Liang Guanglie, the outgoing defence minister of China, who has just concluded his five-day India visit, gave each of the two...
Arab Spring: Is India being blackmailed?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2012
As an old student of Indian foreign policy, I have always viewed “nonalignment” as a tool of pursuing India’s national interests. Nonalignment can never be a goal, which, unfortunately, many...
Turmoil in Bodoland
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2012
Assam is burning as I write this. Ethnic clashes between the Bodo tribes (Hindus) and “Bengali Muslims” (most of them being immigrants) have already consumed 40 lives and resulted in...
Sri Lanka: Disturbing Questions
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
Some years ago, I was in Sri Lankan capital Colombo. On learning that my home state happens to be Odisha despite my Delhi-upbringing, all of a sudden, the general manager of the hotel where I was...
An Inept Job in Kashmir
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 19 Jun , 2012
The much-awaited report of the Kashmir-interlocutors, appointed by the Union Home Ministry, is now out in the public domain. 176-page long, it has evoked mixed reactions. The interlocutors have...
Silent Invasion
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
In its latest “Annual Report”, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has admitted that checking illegal migration from Bangladesh is a major challenge “considering the porous nature of the...
India's Tibet?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2012
The act of self-immolation by the Tibetan protestor Jamphel Yeshi on March 26 in New Delhi against the visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao has hit the international headlines. In contrast,...