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

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...

G7 needs to ensure a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire

It is fitting that Hiroshima was chosen as the location for the G7 meeting, for the chances that the ongoing proxy war between Russia...

GHQ Rawalpindi has no good options on Imran

If Imran once again becomes an instrument of the generals, Pakistanis are unlikely to follow him, which is what makes any softening of Imran’s...

GHQ Rawalpindi has no good options on Imran

If Imran once again becomes an instrument of the generals, Pakistanis are unlikely to follow him, which is what makes any softening of Imran’s...

GHQ Rawalpindi has no good options on Imran

If Imran once again becomes an instrument of the generals, Pakistanis are unlikely to follow him, which is what makes any softening of Imran’s...

GHQ Rawalpindi has no good options on Imran

If Imran once again becomes an instrument of the generals, Pakistanis are unlikely to follow him, which is what makes any softening of Imran’s...

President Biden, catch up on reality

The day Xi Jinping believes that there will not be a proportionate and kinetic response from the US, and Japan, to an armed attack...

President Biden, catch up on reality

The day Xi Jinping believes that there will not be a proportionate and kinetic response from the US, and Japan, to an armed attack...

President Biden, catch up on reality

The day Xi Jinping believes that there will not be a proportionate and kinetic response from the US, and Japan, to an armed attack...

Elite capture behind the chaos in Sudan

The competing power elites have long made money, and expect to make more with the prolonging of the conflict. In days past, colonialism paraded in...

Elite capture behind the chaos in Sudan

The competing power elites have long made money, and expect to make more with the prolonging of the conflict. In days past, colonialism paraded in...

Elite capture behind the chaos in Sudan

The competing power elites have long made money, and expect to make more with the prolonging of the conflict. In days past, colonialism paraded in...

Caste by birth should not spread but disappear

It is a matter of surprise that some born into faiths whose scriptures make no mention of caste are seeking to bring caste into...

Caste by birth should not spread but disappear

It is a matter of surprise that some born into faiths whose scriptures make no mention of caste are seeking to bring caste into...

Caste by birth should not spread but disappear

It is a matter of surprise that some born into faiths whose scriptures make no mention of caste are seeking to bring caste into...

A Karnataka win is key to Rahul’s 2024 dreams

A BJP defeat in Karnataka would echo around the world, for the state is the southern fortress of the BJP, and losing it would...

A Karnataka win is key to Rahul’s 2024 dreams

A BJP defeat in Karnataka would echo around the world, for the state is the southern fortress of the BJP, and losing it would...

A Karnataka win is key to Rahul’s 2024 dreams

A BJP defeat in Karnataka would echo around the world, for the state is the southern fortress of the BJP, and losing it would...

Not prosecution but persecution of Trump

Before District Attorney Bragg stepped into the frame, it would have been easier for a competitor to defeat Trump. New York has slipped several notches...

Not prosecution but persecution of Trump

Before District Attorney Bragg stepped into the frame, it would have been easier for a competitor to defeat Trump. New York has slipped several notches...

Not prosecution but persecution of Trump

Before District Attorney Bragg stepped into the frame, it would have been easier for a competitor to defeat Trump. New York has slipped several notches...

India needs greater VVIP accountability, not less

How many colonial-era laws will the present critics of such laws discard if they return to high office, when in the past, they held...

India needs greater VVIP accountability, not less

How many colonial-era laws will the present critics of such laws discard if they return to high office, when in the past, they held...

India needs greater VVIP accountability, not less

How many colonial-era laws will the present critics of such laws discard if they return to high office, when in the past, they held...

PM Modi is fashioning a post-colonial India

Criminal defamation ought to be removed from the statute books forthwith, and hopefully Prime Minister Narendra Modi will get this done in his drive...

PM Modi is fashioning a post-colonial India

Criminal defamation ought to be removed from the statute books forthwith, and hopefully Prime Minister Narendra Modi will get this done in his drive...

PM Modi is fashioning a post-colonial India

Criminal defamation ought to be removed from the statute books forthwith, and hopefully Prime Minister Narendra Modi will get this done in his drive...

Modi and Kishida must supercharge India-Japan ties

Few remember that in 1868, once the reforms consequent to the Meiji Restoration got under way, India was the largest source of raw materials...

Modi and Kishida must supercharge India-Japan ties

Few remember that in 1868, once the reforms consequent to the Meiji Restoration got under way, India was the largest source of raw materials...

Modi and Kishida must supercharge India-Japan ties

Few remember that in 1868, once the reforms consequent to the Meiji Restoration got under way, India was the largest source of raw materials...

Rahul, please do not trash the India Story

On his annual sojourns to other countries in the 21st century Anglosphere, Rahul ought not to come across as having a visible and visceral...

Rahul, please do not trash the India Story

On his annual sojourns to other countries in the 21st century Anglosphere, Rahul ought not to come across as having a visible and visceral...

Rahul, please do not trash the India Story

On his annual sojourns to other countries in the 21st century Anglosphere, Rahul ought not to come across as having a visible and visceral...

75 years on, time for an accelerated transformation

2023 should become a year of accelerated transformation towards a system where anomalies and injustices get uncovered and rectified seamlessly. Since taking over as the...

75 years on, time for an accelerated transformation

2023 should become a year of accelerated transformation towards a system where anomalies and injustices get uncovered and rectified seamlessly. Since taking over as the...

75 years on, time for an accelerated transformation

2023 should become a year of accelerated transformation towards a system where anomalies and injustices get uncovered and rectified seamlessly. Since taking over as the...

Senator Menendez, help defend the Indo-Pacific

It is substantially in the hands of Bob Menendez whether or not the resolution recognizing Arunachal Pradesh as part of India passes the US...

RJD likely to offer Congress fewer seats in bihar

Climate change and feedback loops: Have we reached the point of no return?

Ukraine needs to heed PM Modi’s April 2022 peace appeal

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