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

Qatar needs to change its stance

Just as the conflict between Israel and Hamas is about to enter its third week, a court in Qatar has sentenced to death by...

Applying equality of treatment for civil unions

In the philosophy of Sanatan Dharma, multiple pathways exist towards spiritual progress. In the matter of civil unions as well, following an inclusivist path...

PM Modi steers through the Gaza war

Ever since he led the BJP towards winning a second term in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been confronting...

‘Ceasefire in Gaza possible only after terror ceases’

The elimination of the Hamas terror factory in Gaza would liberate the people living there so that they can have a future much better...

Hamas has obstructed a peaceful, prosperous Gaza

Hamas has once again shown that the battle between itself and Israel is existential. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel had a wake-up call on...

Stop creating a ‘Trudeaustan’, Justin

Numerous supporters of Hamas who have been welcomed into Canada during the period when Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister of the country have...

Abe and Modi energised Bharat-Nippon alliance

If the Indo-Pacific is to be free of expansionism whether creeping or galloping, Tokyo and Delhi need to work ever closer together. In different ways,...

Not all is well in Xi Jinping’s PRC

The following has been extracted from the book ‘Cold War 2.0: Illusion versus Reality’. NEW DELHI While the CPC speaks often of the divergences between itself...

Ukraine becomes a liability for the West

In a remarkable coincidence, media outlets across both sides of the Atlantic that constantly advertise their “independence”, took a visibly similar line on the...

Despite Trudeau, Canada is India’s natural partner

Much of what Prime Minister Trudeau has been doing is indefensible, but it needs never to be forgotten that one Trudeau, even a Prime...

Canada is a natural ally of India

Boswell writes of Samuel Johnson that the raconteur defined a patron as an individual who idly watched a man at risk of drowning in...

Trudeau: Putting self above national interest

In order to deflect attention from his own lapses, Trudeau has sought to pin the blame on India for a gangland murder of the...

Dividing the democracies

It was early this year that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was being asked in the Canadian parliament about a PRC ring operating in the...

President Biden may have created his own problems

Biden refrained from expanding the strength of the Supreme Court so as to ensure a moderate majority on the bench. That miscalculation could cost...

India and Saudi Arabia make history

The bonhomie between the leaders of India and Saudi Arabia would have come as a shock to those who tour global capitals so as...

Modi unites a fractured G20 around the Delhi Declaration

It need not have been all that much of a surprise when the Delhi Declaration put forward by India, and which embodied the concept...

Don’t summarily dismiss ‘One Nation One Poll’

Some of the arguments being deployed against implementing One Nation One Poll are bizarre, among them being the worry that there may be a...

Zero tolerance to expansionism in Indo-Pacific

It has long been assumed within the upper reaches of the CCP that Laos and Cambodia had become vassal states of the PRC, and...

PM Modi speeds up Blockchain in digital drive

The RBI needs to remember that unless global crypto norms get established as suggested by the PM, several of its measures may have a...

India stands up to Xi’s bluster

The year 2023 will be a special period in the roster of G20 annual meetings. It is the year after the members of NATO...

Ahead of G20 Summit, Modi steers BRICS towards neutrality

Despite efforts by some of its members to convert the group into an instrument of bloc politics, BRICS has remained neutral. Despite similar efforts...

A neutral BRICS Plus is a win for India

The presence of PM Modi at the 2023 BRICS Summit proved to be an effective counter to what was expected to be the overwhelming...

Chandrayaan shows Global South’s mettle

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his joy and gratitude to the scientists, technicians and others responsible for the soft landing of the Vikram...

Accessible and speedy justice possible by 2029

PM Modi would surely welcome CJI Chandrachud’s emphasis on inclusive justice, given that inclusion has been a watchword of his. Mahatma Gandhi gave a talisman...

Zelenskyy would be a distraction at G-20

Before becoming the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a showman, entertaining audiences with his comic routines. A showman and his stage are seldom...

Manipal, where a single acorn became a tall oak

The example set by Dr T.M.A. Pai illustrates the truth that we Indians have what it takes to be world-beaters, even in locations where...

Delhi, the national capital, is special

If Arvind Kejriwal has his way, the primary challenge for the BJP would come in 2029 not from the Congress but from the AamAadmi...

PM Modi to detractors: Do you really have a plan for India?

Have Mamata, Sitaram Yechury, Rahul and others become genuine allies? Or will the coalition fall apart at the first touch of hard reality bumping...

Victory in 2024 central to PM Modi’s agenda

Who emerges the winner in 2024 and who loses will determine the trajectory of India for generations more. Small wonder that the Opposition’s gloves...

Parliament readies for launch of 2024 Lok Sabha campaign

The 2024 campaign is about two different paths for India during coming decades. Another term in office is essential for Prime Minister Modi to...

WaPo must read India correctly

The Washington Post established itself at the apex of the journalism pyramid as a consequence of four individuals. The first was Katherine Graham, the...

In G-20 and SCO, PM Modi navigates turbulence in 2023

India has managed to steer the G-20 in a way that establishes New Delhi’s credentials as a platform where even bitter rivals can participate....

White House is Trump’s surest safety net

Behind prison bars, Trump would almost certainly gain rather than lose votes. It was Vladimir Putin who spoke about an incident in his childhood when...

Protecting the essence of Israel

Israel was explicitly set up in 1948 as the homeland of the Jewish community, just three years after World War II, during the course...

Qin Gang’s absence may reflect Xi’s weakening grip on the CCP

Has the disappearance of Qin taken place not because of Xi’s orders but in spite of them? Has Qin Gang become the ‘chicken’ that...

Mao’s Cultural Revolution altered culture of China

The CCP has changed significant parts of the chemistry of Chinese culture, while India has an unbroken civilisational heritage of over 5,000 years that...

Terror must not find shelter

As the 2023 Chairman of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Prime Minister Narendra Modi was clear in his opening speech at the SCO Summit...

In Paris, Modi and Macron showcase the emerging world order

A New World requires New Thought. This is the implicit message behind the policy stance of the New India that is emerging within the...

Needed at G-20 Summit in Delhi: A Ukraine ceasefire

The problem is that both the Cold War 1.0 zealots of NATO and Zelenskyy live in the shadowy world of zealotry. P.T. Barnum was finally...

Respect for the citizen

A never before seen opportunity has presented itself to India in the form of countries seeking to reduce their dependence for supplies from the...

Unity essential in holding together diversity

It is the responsibility of educators and historians to ensure that awareness of the common core of belief in the unity of the nation...

No visas for terror sympathisers

Names have always been used to camouflage the actual intentions and effect of an action. The Enabling Act that was passed by the German...

In India, ‘secularism’ stands for the opposite of the concept

Just as in Turkey, Egypt, the US or the UK, there needs to be a Uniform Civil Code if secularism, equal treatment of those...

Asian allies worry that Blinken blinked in Beijing

Blinken’s China visit will do nothing to quiet fears in Taiwan that Washington will look the other way were there to be a total...

Modi and Biden script history in Washington

Although the United States and India have been the two largest democracies in the world from the period when India became independent 75 years...

Biden and Modi need to be ambitious

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s impending visit to Washington to confer with US President Joe Biden and address a joint session of both Houses of...

Neutral rules essential for multilateralism

The intention of Beijing is to get BRICS to accept RMB as the common currency, replacing the US dollar. A visitor to China will find...

Chatham House needs to avoid the 1930s trap

Chatham House, otherwise known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), was set up in 1923 by a philanthropic couple in London. Originally...

Implementation, not harsher laws, essential for success

During the period when the UPA was in office, there was a horrendous attack in 2012 on a young woman in a bus in...

Kashmiri hospitality on display at G20-Srinagar

From 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to bring back Kashmir to the prosperity it once enjoyed. Among the most beautiful locations on the...

From Delhi to Rio: A shared agenda for G20, rise of the Global South

Dearth of second-line leaders in Congress

We are Fighting for freedom, says Dil Murad Baloch of BNM

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