Articles By Prakash Nanda
Indo-Pak: Limitations of Peace Talks
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2011
One always has a lot of emotional attachment with his or her place of birth. Therefore it is understandable why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has a very soft corner for Pakistan. He once had...
Three cheers for AFSPA
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2011
By no stretch of imagination, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah can be considered a competent administrator. His record in office has been pathetic, to say the least. Yet, he does...
The Hina factor
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2011
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna says that he is “satisfied” at the progress achieved during the India-Pakistan dialogue on July 27 at New Delhi. According to him, his talks with the...
Laden and Ladenism
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2011
Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the Americans, though many Pakistanis and Arabs do not believe so in the absence of such “hard evidence” as displaying his dead body or the burying ritual....
Misreading Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2011
The recently revealed WikiLeaks documents mentioned, among others, how the then national security advisor M K Narayanan had indicated once to his American interlocutors, and that too, in the...
Hostages on Sea
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2011
As I write this, family members and supporters of the six Indian sailors onboard MV Suez, an Egyptian ship, captured by Somali pirates in August 2010, remains uncertain. With the deadline to pay...
Dark Clouds over Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2011
It all began in June 2009. Asia Bibi, a farm hand from the village of Ittan Wali in Sheikhupura District of the Punjab province in Pakistan, was asked to fetch water. Bibi, whose is the only...
The Fragile Af-Pak Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 07 Feb , 2011
With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the Obama administration’s so-called Af–Pak policy is simply not working. The fraudulent Presidential elections in Afghanistan,...
The Arab lessons
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
While it will be little premature to suggest that a democratic revolution is sweeping across the Arab world at the moment, the Arabs are no doubt undergoing a great period of turmoil. It started...
Pakistan's Blackmail
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2011
US Vice president Joe Biden has just completed his so-called one-day secret trip to Pakistan, which, incidentally, was known well in advance to the media all over the world. Biden was in...
The Dubious Deal with ULFA
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
The Assam government, fully backed by New Delhi, has cleared the passage for release of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders from jail. On the New Year’s Day, the so-called...
China wins in New Delhi
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2010
What are the concrete results flowing from the just concluded high profile visit of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to India? The answer depends on whether one is seeking it from the Indian point of...
Taiwan's courtship with India-II
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rising India | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Major Advantages: First, given the importance of China in Indian foreign policy, Indian policy makers, foreign policy analysts and think tanks must understand Beijing well. This is particularly...
Taiwan's courtship with India-I
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rising India | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
Ever since the communists under the late Mao Tse-tung forced the then Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 to flee to Taiwan, the situation across the Taiwan straits that separate Mainland...
WikiLeaks and India
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
WikiLeaks has done it again. The whistle-blowing website has just published hundreds of thousands of confidential State Department cables. These communications apparently reveal the details of...
Nepal Policy A Monumental Blunder?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Any dispassionate analysis of the current situation in Nepal will deal with some uncomfortable questions. It seems that the Indian government has not dealt with these questions properly. By...
Limitations of Russia-India-China triangle
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) on Nov 15 held their 10th trilateral at the Chinese city Wuhan to discuss a host of regional and international issues like counter-terrorism,...
Anti-India mindset entrenched in Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2010
New Delhi, India – If a recent report in the leading U.S. daily The Wall Street Journal is to be believed, the Obama administration is to intensify efforts to make India resolve its tensions...
Maoist Warriors: More than foot soldiers
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Predictably, Delhi’s Left-dominated intellectual circles have condemned the reported move on the part of Chhatisgarh police to implicate a high-profile Delhi University Professor for her...
Reevaluating our Pakistan Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2010
The recent round of talks between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan has failed. Indian home secretary G K Pillai has been made the villain for the failure by both the foreign ministers....