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

In India, jail bharo has become the only solution to crime

During the time when Richard Nixon was the President of the United States, began the acceleration of a policy within the US to prescribe...

People relate to Pranab with fondness

The last time this columnist met Pranab Mukherjee was during the Vajpayee era, at the residence of one of the most gracious hostesses in...

People relate to Pranab with fondness

The last time this columnist met Pranab Mukherjee was during the Vajpayee era, at the residence of one of the most gracious hostesses in...

People relate to Pranab with fondness

The last time this columnist met Pranab Mukherjee was during the Vajpayee era, at the residence of one of the most gracious hostesses in...

Younger RSS leaders nixed Gadkari return

A trio of young RSS leaders, D. Hosabele, Manmohan Vaidya and Krishna Gopal finally succeeded on 22 January in convincing RSS Sarsanghchalak (Supremo) Mohan...

If rules subvert justice, they need to be set aside

One of the many lessons taught to the nation by Mahatma Gandhi was that outcomes do not matter, procedures do. To paraphrase his words...

If rules subvert justice, they need to be set aside

One of the many lessons taught to the nation by Mahatma Gandhi was that outcomes do not matter, procedures do. To paraphrase his words...

If rules subvert justice, they need to be set aside

One of the many lessons taught to the nation by Mahatma Gandhi was that outcomes do not matter, procedures do. To paraphrase his words...

Army Anger forced PM to harden his stance

Anger within the military, specifically the Army, forced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to replace his conciliatory line on Pakistan with a more hard-line stance,...

The world can do without EU’s policy mistakes

These days, the unravelling of the Eurozone is showing up the quality of decision-making by the bureaucracies proliferating in Europe. Rather than serve as...

The world can do without EU’s policy mistakes

These days, the unravelling of the Eurozone is showing up the quality of decision-making by the bureaucracies proliferating in Europe. Rather than serve as...

The world can do without EU’s policy mistakes

These days, the unravelling of the Eurozone is showing up the quality of decision-making by the bureaucracies proliferating in Europe. Rather than serve as...

Rogue Pak colonels behind LOC killings

Military-civilian sources in India warn that the command structure of the Pakistan Army is being challenged by a growing number of fanaticised officers. They...

Sino-Japanese frictions could be advantageous for India

Whether out of a sense of guilt at the wartime conquest of much of China or because the country provided a cost-effective production platform,...

Sino-Japanese frictions could be advantageous for India

Whether out of a sense of guilt at the wartime conquest of much of China or because the country provided a cost-effective production platform,...

Sino-Japanese frictions could be advantageous for India

Whether out of a sense of guilt at the wartime conquest of much of China or because the country provided a cost-effective production platform,...

Congress’ Inner Core group plans UPA III

While television cameras get focused on "Core Group" meetings of the Congress, insiders claim that the actual heart of strategising within the ruling party...

Dirty Dancing is not rape; it won’t destroy India

It is not only in Tunisia, Syria, Libya or Egypt that the ability of cell phones to take photographs and even capture action on...

Dirty Dancing is not rape; it won’t destroy India

It is not only in Tunisia, Syria, Libya or Egypt that the ability of cell phones to take photographs and even capture action on...

Dirty Dancing is not rape; it won’t destroy India

It is not only in Tunisia, Syria, Libya or Egypt that the ability of cell phones to take photographs and even capture action on...

Political class should follow the Mahatma, not Nehru

Despite the reality that the Indian legal system — clone that it is of the British colonial model — has far too many laws...

Political class should follow the Mahatma, not Nehru

Despite the reality that the Indian legal system — clone that it is of the British colonial model — has far too many laws...

Political class should follow the Mahatma, not Nehru

Despite the reality that the Indian legal system — clone that it is of the British colonial model — has far too many laws...

As policing becomes extinct, it’s time the IPS stood up

What the gang rape on the woman now battling for life in a Delhi hospital shows is the reality of policing in India, that...

As policing becomes extinct, it’s time the IPS stood up

What the gang rape on the woman now battling for life in a Delhi hospital shows is the reality of policing in India, that...

As policing becomes extinct, it’s time the IPS stood up

What the gang rape on the woman now battling for life in a Delhi hospital shows is the reality of policing in India, that...

It’s time to probe what killed Jacintha Saldanha

There has been no flow of information relating to her death." This from Naveen Saldanha, the brother of Jacintha, who was found dead soon...

It’s time to probe what killed Jacintha Saldanha

There has been no flow of information relating to her death." This from Naveen Saldanha, the brother of Jacintha, who was found dead soon...

It’s time to probe what killed Jacintha Saldanha

There has been no flow of information relating to her death." This from Naveen Saldanha, the brother of Jacintha, who was found dead soon...

BJP adopts Nehru’s policy of keeping economy closed

Jawaharlal Nehru never could bring himself to forgive India's business community, despite the generous help that it had given to the freedom movement. That...

BJP adopts Nehru’s policy of keeping economy closed

Jawaharlal Nehru never could bring himself to forgive India's business community, despite the generous help that it had given to the freedom movement. That...

BJP adopts Nehru’s policy of keeping economy closed

Jawaharlal Nehru never could bring himself to forgive India's business community, despite the generous help that it had given to the freedom movement. That...

Muslim Brotherhood now targets Kuwait

The Muslim Brotherhood succeeded in winning power in Egypt and Tunisia, and in ensuring the demise of Muammar Gaddafi and his regime. The next...

Muslim Brotherhood now targets Kuwait

The Muslim Brotherhood succeeded in winning power in Egypt and Tunisia, and in ensuring the demise of Muammar Gaddafi and his regime. The next...

Muslim Brotherhood now targets Kuwait

The Muslim Brotherhood succeeded in winning power in Egypt and Tunisia, and in ensuring the demise of Muammar Gaddafi and his regime. The next...

Time to set up tribunals for mass terror attacks

President Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde have done what their immediate predecessors failed to do, which was to implement the death sentence...

Time to set up tribunals for mass terror attacks

President Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde have done what their immediate predecessors failed to do, which was to implement the death sentence...

Time to set up tribunals for mass terror attacks

President Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde have done what their immediate predecessors failed to do, which was to implement the death sentence...

Netanyahu bolder after Hamas shift to Doha

"Bibi Netanyahu" has taken over from where Ariel Sharon left off, by presenting a vision of peace that involves a much lower level of...

Netanyahu bolder after Hamas shift to Doha

"Bibi Netanyahu" has taken over from where Ariel Sharon left off, by presenting a vision of peace that involves a much lower level of...

Netanyahu bolder after Hamas shift to Doha

"Bibi Netanyahu" has taken over from where Ariel Sharon left off, by presenting a vision of peace that involves a much lower level of...

$150 billion trade with India can silence China’s army

"Hindi Chini Buy Buy" was the theme of a book pointing out the economic complementarities of two countries which together contain 2.5 billion people...

$150 billion trade with India can silence China’s army

"Hindi Chini Buy Buy" was the theme of a book pointing out the economic complementarities of two countries which together contain 2.5 billion people...

$150 billion trade with India can silence China’s army

"Hindi Chini Buy Buy" was the theme of a book pointing out the economic complementarities of two countries which together contain 2.5 billion people...

It is time to have an Asian Security Initiative

Thirteen years ago, this columnist put forward the idea of an "Asian NATO", a military alliance which would have the United States, India, Japan,...

It is time to have an Asian Security Initiative

Thirteen years ago, this columnist put forward the idea of an "Asian NATO", a military alliance which would have the United States, India, Japan,...

It is time to have an Asian Security Initiative

Thirteen years ago, this columnist put forward the idea of an "Asian NATO", a military alliance which would have the United States, India, Japan,...

It’s time for India to tilt towards Tokyo

Japan was the first Asian nation in the 20th century to humble a power headquartered in Europe, when the Czarist fleet was despatched by...

It’s time for India to tilt towards Tokyo

Japan was the first Asian nation in the 20th century to humble a power headquartered in Europe, when the Czarist fleet was despatched by...

It’s time for India to tilt towards Tokyo

Japan was the first Asian nation in the 20th century to humble a power headquartered in Europe, when the Czarist fleet was despatched by...

BCCI paid heed to Pak allies’ warning against travel

JMM worried that Congress will sink alliance ship

IS ISRAEL GUILTY OF GENOCIDE OR ETHNIC CLEANSING OR BOTH?

M.D. Nalapat

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