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

JFK, RFK and Dr King deaths have a common thread

A common link between each of the deaths has been the fact that in a climate of war, all three sought peace. The Trump Presidency...

Old Europe confronts a New US and an emerging New Europe

For its own well-being, Europe needs to move from the past and transition from Old Europe to New Europe, in a manner that the...

Indo-Pacific security key focus of Feb 13 Trump-Modi summit

NEW DELHI: On February 13, President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are scheduled to meet in what could be their most consequential...

Trudeau’s Nijjar smear campaign against India boomerangs

Trudeau sought to divert or at least to dilute the impact of reports that not just him but several legislators in his party were...

On Budget Day, the Modi Revolution comes into full view

Whether it be in health, education, housing or in other fields, the transformation of India through the Modi Revolution is coming into full view. New...

President Trump needs to remember the 2026 midterms

Were the Executive Order restrictions on birth-right citizenship not removed before the 2026 midterm polls, not just Indian-Americans but Hispanic Americans as well would...

Reforms move into the fast lane in Modi 3.0

Ahead of the Budget, major changes in the tax structure are under discussion. New Delhi: 2025-29 will witness a speeding up of the reform process...

Zelenskyy finds his appeal to the West disappearing

One by one, those politicians in the West who are gangbusters about the war are losing to rivals who are sceptical. In the Broadway musical...

Trump emerging as the Ronald Reagan of the 21st century

Ronald Reagan as President of the US weakened the Soviet Union to its extinction soon after his term. In like fashion, Donald Trump could...

Confluence of paths to the Divine converge in Kumbh

In 2022, Prime Minister Modi said that this was not an era of war but that of peace. There ought never to be a...

Pakistan descending into chaos, danger of cross-border influx

The risk for India is that the turmoil in Pakistan could ignite a flood of refugees into India, among which would be numerous agents...

Jewish civilisation overcomes millennia of persecution

Through all the horrors that Jews have faced, including the Holocaust caused by Adolf Hitler, they have remained steadfast in their beliefs, beliefs that...

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...