M.D. Nalapat, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Russia-Ukraine war enters the danger zone

An assumption made by the Biden administration was that Putin would hold fire until Trump gets sworn in on January 20, 2025. They may...

Justin Trudeau, stop dancing with extremists

Canada with Trudeau as PM has been moving within the orbit of the Sino-Wahhabi lobby. When he was Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau made...

Iran and Israel begin a slide into war

In risking a war with Israel and its backers, the clerical regime in Tehran is at risk of causing its own demise. Volodymyr Zelenskyy must...

2024 US Presidential contest seems evenly matched

Overall, Kamala Harris is a much more formidable candidate than Trump, but may yet be defeated unless she moves out of Biden’s shadow. The 2024...

Win or lose, J.D. Vance can be a winner

Either as Vice-President or simply as a Veep nominee, Vance would have ample opportunity before the next polls to gently move ahead rather than...

Follow PM Modi in trusting Indians to deliver

Trust them, treat them well, and you will bring out the best in them. August 14 started out as just another day, already tinged with...

Advantage Trump-Vance over Biden-Harris

Vance is right, Taiwan is way more important to US security interests than getting back control of lands lost by Ukraine to Russia in...

Why PM Modi visited Austria after Russia

Several NATO member states are unhappy with the world’s largest democracy for not following their euro-centric guidance. Visits overseas by the Prime Minister of the...

Parliament needs to show less heat, more light

It is clear that the target of the I.N.D.I. Alliance is not so much the BJP as it is PM Modi. Given the manner in...

Julian Assange is free, but speech is not

Assange was not a spy, but a journalist. He was not a US citizen but an Australian. Julian Assange is back in his home country,...

Spare the Ukrainian people more pain

Habits are hard to break, and amongst the most difficult has been the hangover caused by Cold War I between the West and the...

Taiwan must not go the Tibet way

Identical arguments that were used by the CCP to justify its occupation of Tibet are being used by the CCP leadership to claim the...

Modi 3.0 scripts a coalition geared for reform

It is reasonable to expect that far from slowing down, reforms will be speeded up. By 105 seats, the NDA was short of the ambitious...

Court verdict will propel Trump to name key picks

For Trump, the stakes after the New York verdict have become much higher, the road to the White House more challenging. In most countries, being...

Voters will choose between certainty and uncertainty

Who the Prime Minister is would make a significant difference in matters of governance, especially in the mind of the voters. Scarcely a week from...

TikTok or EVs, entry of Trojans must stop

In a decision taken by elements of the bureaucracy working with a silo mentality, electric vehicles from the PRC are to be given easier...

Transforming policy to convert India into Bharat

The time would come during Modi 3.0 for anchoring transformational change firmly within the administrative structure in a manner not attempted until now. It has...

Post-poll, Rahul aims at heading an anti-BJP coalition

Had Rahul ventured into a rematch at Amethi with Smriti, and had Priyanka contested from Rae Bareli, there would have been a burst of...

Return the ASEAN Sea to Southeast Asia

Geographically, the nomenclature ‘South China Sea’ makes no sense, as the territories comprising South China are not fronting the waters of that important waterway. In...

India-Taiwan relations reach a higher orbit

Incoming President William Lai is known to be favouring a policy of close engagement between India and Taiwan. Since the 1990s, India has had an...

Doomsday narrative versus reality in 2024 elections

Both the fiscal deficit as well as the revenue deficit have steadily come down during the second Modi term. On 4 June 2024, the verdict...

At 75, it’s time for NATO to grow up

The message at the 75th anniversary bash was that NATO can do no wrong, including in Ukraine. Fighting the last war while enmeshed in a...

India is emerging as the alternative to China

After centuries of decline, India is on cusp of emerging once again as a superpower. It is not accidental that there has been a record...

Nilima Rani inspires the best within ourselves

Dr Achyuta Samanta was blessed by a formidable and wonderful mother, whose life he describes in a book titled ‘My Mother My Hero’. On March...

Henry Higgins was wrong about women

All 365 days in the year ought to be International Women’s Days. “My Fair Lady” was a film that continues to pique viewer interest through...

PRC-GHQ role in US defeat in Afghanistan

The manner in which the PLA-GHQ Rawalpindi alliance sabotaged the US-led war against terror in Afghanistan has never been documented, at least in public. On...

Move over Davos, it is now Raisina’s turn

In an era where the Atlantic has clearly given way to the Indo-Pacific, it is only fitting that the Davos summit has given way...

Uniform Civil Code must in a Secular Democracy

Overall, a Uniform Civil Code promotes equal treatment under the law to all. Given the imminence of the Lok Sabha polls, it is to be...

Genuine democracy alone can save Pakistan

Unless Pakistan becomes a democracy accountable not to the military but to the people, the country has no future. It is difficult if not impossible...

Wikipedia must not change into Wokepedia

In December 2023, almost all of the information in Wikipedia on the present writer was removed, apparently by a Wikipedia editor of Indian origin...

Zelenskyy demands that NATO attack Russia

It was clear from the cheering and the Q&A that followed Zelenskyy’s speech at Davos that it is less economic growth than regime change...

Don’t repeat the 1930s history in the 2020s

The Eurasia Group has avoided calling either Xi or the PRC in any way ‘dangerous’ but regards a fighter for democracy as ‘dangerous’. Recently, a...

India’s doctors do the whole world proud

It was during the beginning of the 1990s that the image of India began to change in the US and in the other English-speaking...

India-Russia trade ties need a civilian focus

2024 needs to witness Moscow freeing itself from the chokehold of Beijing by increasing economic involvement with India. During the visit to Moscow of External...

Biden falls while Trump rises in US polls

Should Joe Biden fail in his bid to win a second term in the White House, Attorney General of the United States Merrick Garland...

MPs should follow Sansad Dharma

Among the reasons why the NDA under Atal Behari Vajpayee won in the 1999 polls caused by the withdrawal of support by the AIADMK...

Supreme Court decision on Article 370 welcome

Led by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India affirmed the legality of the abrogation of Article 370...

Biden risks losing his job over Ukraine

Every dollar that Biden spends on keeping Ukraine in a futile fight is seen by many of his voters as a dollar less for...

Use sanctions to dismantle Hamas

Searching for members of the military wing of Hamas by entering streets and houses throughout Gaza may be an impossible objective. Not to mention...

Gaza war: Two states are better than one

A halt needs to be called out to both Deniers of Israel and Deniers of Palestine, something that has long been obvious to a...

Washington must keep its commitments to Delhi

It is not unknown even for the best intelligence agencies in the world to have been victims of penetration by hostile countries. The USSR...

India’s history and culture unite and empower

The ancient wisdom of India is not the exclusive right of the people of only a single country to know, but ought to be...

Gaza’s welcome humanitarian pause

It was a welcome move by Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree to a four-day pause in the fighting so as to get in exchange...

Xi-Biden Summit ends up as Lose-Lose for both

San Francisco was just another link in a long chain of events that are resulting in a multiplying of frictions between Beijing and Washington. CCP...

‘Alternative to BJP’ faces internal hurdles

State polls are entirely different from a national poll, and cannot be compared to the semi-finals in the way earlier contests are in some...

Trudeau tries to shift the blame

Canada is a country blessed not just with an impressive but a largely versatile population. The country is marked by a respect for diversity,...

Allow humanitarian aid to Gaza

Judging by the shock and the clearly improvised response to the 7 October terror attack that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers manifested,...