Articles in Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai
Six years later, are we ready?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 27 Nov , 2014
Six years ago most of us sat and watched a carnage in Mumbai being enacted on our TV screens. It seemed like a bad dream as we watched terrorists in action and nothing could have brought home the...
The Gathering Storm
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 30 Oct , 2014
It is a troubled world that we live in today and there are many reasons for this. Draw a straight line from Pakistan to Turkey, swing down to the Gaza Strip and from there to Yemen, and we have an...
The India Pakistan merry-go-round
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 21 Aug , 2014
Narendra Modi’s invitation to SAARC leaders for the swearing in May was a smart move and it threw three groups into a spin. As the startled Nawaz Sharif government went into a confused silence,...
The games nations play
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 26 Jun , 2014
In the early days of the Cold War, nationalism was a particularly bad word in underdeveloped or developing countries, whose primary purpose was to service the First World and fulfil its economic...
Managing the nation's defence, somehow
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 11 Mar , 2014
Nine officers and men dead in the last six months in two submarine accidents with one submarine written off and another grounded. Who is responsible for the death of these persons and the loss of...
BRICS: A wall for some and a platform for others
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 05 Apr , 2013
Success at multilateral events like the recently concluded BRICS-5 summit at Durban would be difficult to measure. Nevertheless, members of BRICS must have done something right to have attracted...
China rises, India falters
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
In a recent conversation with President Zardari, China’s newPresident, Xi Jinping declared that his country supported Pakistan in its efforts to maintain national sovereignty and independence...
A policy of denial and defiance
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 28 Jan , 2013
What is with Pakistan’s rulers? Have they made their state a state in denial or are they themselves in a state of denial? It was both interesting and disturbing to see speakers from Pakistan...
Pakistan eyes Afghanistan once again
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 10 Jan , 2013
Pakistan and the Taliban have their eyes fixed on 2014 when the US packs its bags and leaves Afghanistan. The US now seems disillusioned with Hamid Karzai but have not yet found an obvious...
Afghanistan: The return of the warlords
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 07 Jan , 2013
So President Obama retains the White House and the power but the Party General Secretary Hu Jintao leaves his throne in March 2013. Nevertheless, the rest of the world is going to see continuity...
US India Pakistan - The Eternal Triangle
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 27 Dec , 2012
President Barack Obama will soon be sitting with his team to prioritise his to-do-list for his legacy that will be intertwined with how he handles his country’s strategic and national...