How Pranab-da floored US corporates
Against the background of raging fires, it was Pranab Mukherjee’s thankless task to defend the government – yet again— and establish trust with the business community. It is difficult to say whether he...
View ArticleHow ‘outsourcing’ taints India’s contribution to US
The increasing presence of Indian companies in the United States and the role they play is a story largely unappreciated because it is untold.
View ArticleOsama letters: Getting into the dark mind of ‘the Sheikh’
For the hundreds of journalists poring over the letters of Osama Bin Laden released by the US there may be little information that reveals anything of any consequence. However, his musings on US Vice...
View ArticleIndia-US: A relationship ‘oversold’?
Critics say India will never be what the US wants in a partner and disappointments will continue to darken the future. So why invest so much?
View ArticlePak trades pride for dollars; returns to the ‘business’ of war
Pakistan comes to the sobering realisation that it can always extract more money from the Americans, but it cannot command, or even demand, respect.
View ArticleThe slow and inevitable isolation of Pakistan
When the game has changed, it is pointless to play by old rules. Pakistan’s impossible demands and exaggerated expectations, which may have been met once upon a time, have a strange dissonance today.
View ArticleCelebrate, not Decry Desi Domination of Spellings
It seems some have a slight problem with desi kids dominating the American spelling bees. There is a hunt to pin success on anything other than hard work and grit.
View ArticleIndia, US are talking ten to the dozen
India wants to be close to the US, buy American weapons, and even send signals to China but not in too overt a manner.
View ArticleImagining India: A sacred geography bound by Hinduism
A scholar of Hinduism at Harvard envisions India as a "sacred landscape" that existed as a geographical entity in people's cultural imagination long before cartographers, and modern historians, gave it...
View ArticleClinton’s Pak ‘apology’ does not mean much
A careful reading of Hillary Clinton’s statement should clarify that “mistakes” were made by both sides. The apology fits in the daily management, not in the big picture.
View ArticleNasheed wants India to be vocal, will India listen?
To abandon a president who during his tenure definitely tried to align his country with India on national security issues and shunned overtures from a certain large “frenemy” is just bad policy. And to...
View ArticleIndo-Pak cricket: Why does India keep giving when Pak just takes
Just when Washington and other capitals are finally tightening the screws on Islamabad, New Delhi is finding excess generosity in its heart. India will resume cricketing ties and may lift the ban on...
View ArticleOn foreign policy, Romney sounds like Obama’s confused version
So far the presumptive Republican nominee’s foreign policy musings have been short on details and heavy on rhetoric.
View ArticleGurdwara firing: Sikhs mourn dead and ignorance about faith
For the Sikh community in the United States, solving one hate crime may not be enough. They have been at the receiving end since 9/11 — repeatedly mistaken for who they are not. Ignorance about the...
View ArticleShocker: Al Jazeera’s ignorant anti-India narrative
It is open season on India. And everyone is hunting. Whoever had a grudge while India was the flavour of the season is now in the game, busy getting their two minutes of fame.
View ArticleWhy does Al Jazeera call terror, just violence
Firstpost blogger Seema Sirohi defends her views on why she found Al Jazeera's show on the flight of North Eastern Indians from various cities uninformed. She's also confused as to why the channel...
View ArticleWhat US Judiciary could learn from Naroda Patiya verdict
While in India, the people’s faith in the judiciary was restored with the Naroda Patiya verdict, in America, two cases under investigation related to the use of torture by the CIA, which had ended in...
View ArticleAnti Islam video: Free speech at what cost?
Free speech absolutists want the US govt to assert First Amendment rights and not compromise this most sacred principle. But they don’t explain how a government is to protect its citizens – a task more...
View ArticleTwo faced Pakistan exposes itself in the US
The two faces of Pakistan were on stark display last week, one with a good make over showing signs of a somewhat healthy diet and the other darkened with twisted logic spouting old falsehoods.
View ArticleShivraj Singh Chouhan: BJP’s new star shines in Washington
Chouhan’s success was remarkable enough that the World Bank invited him to make a presentation so that some of his ideas could be replicated in Africa, especially his many schemes for women’s empowerment.
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