
C. Raja Mohan
The Indian Express Group

Wednesday 4 November '09
As Beijing continues to treat Indian citizens from the state of Jammu & Kashmir differently from the rest for consular purposes, Delhi must come...Tuesday 3 November '09
As India prepares to engage Pakistan again, Delhi should have no expectation at all of achieving substantive results in the near future or persuading Islamabad to dismantle its terror machine any time soon.Wednesday
28 October '09The recent tension between Delhi and Beijing is not the only factor that is making the so-called strategic triangle — the grouping of Russia...Wednesday
21 October '09All the major players in Afghanistan are either moving to plan B or searching for one. The most painful transition is in Washington...Monday
19 October '09India's joint air exercises with Oman marks a major milestone in the evolution of the Indian Air Force.Friday
16 October '09Dr Singh, Barack Obama and the badlands of the IndusWednesday
14 October '09As China and India struggle to stabilise their wobbly relationship — the latest bump comes from Beijing’s protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh...Wednesday
7 October '09A curious little storm made its way through Pakistan recently without much notice in India. It was about an alleged decision by Islamabad to let India move goods to Afghanistan through its territory.Monday
5 October '09Saturday
3 October '09As our China debate continues, we must thank Defence Minister A.K. Antony for injecting a new word into the argument — capabilities...Wednesday
30 September '09As China celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic this week, India must take a deep breath and begin a fundamental rethink its strategy....Monday
28 September '09Having been ambushed by the Iran question, Dr Singh has been quick to lay down an early marker for Indian diplomacy.Wednesday
23 September '09In scrapping the plans to deploy missile defence systems in Poland and the Czech Republic last week, US President Barack Obama...Monday
21 September '09There is a chorus of Pakistani voices opposing Islamabad's latest plan to sell vast tracts of agricultural land to Saudi Arabia.Monday
21 September '09Three recent developments — the resurrection of the controversy over the yield of India’s sole hydrogen bomb test in 1998...Wednesday
16 September '09In just one weekend, Washington has turned the much fancied notion of building a ‘Group of Two’ with Beijing on its head.Wednesday
9 September '09Big powers playing the Great Game tend to underestimate the political wiles of their local partners in Afghanistan.Monday
7 September '09One of Musharraf's advisers has declared that 'just one phone call from Saudi Arabia will stop all the non-sense' about sending the General to prison.Wednesday
2 September '09As the world comes to terms with the massive defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday’s elections in Japan, the big...Monday
24 August '09When the heads of Indian diplomatic missions gather in New Delhi this week for an annual brainstorming and policy guidance...Wednesday
19 August '09The great game was largely about promoting, and preventing, the integration of inner Asia with the Eurasian rim lands.Wednesday
12 August '09As India and China continued their seemingly endless negotiations on the boundary dispute last week in Delhi, there was another event in faraway Cochin at the southern tip of the subcontinent.Wednesday
22 July '09As the American military surge in Afghanistan puts the Taliban on the defensive, Washington has explained the linkage between the short term and the long in the Obama administration’s Af-Pak strategy.Monday
20 July '09In doing the capital’s political circuit today, Hillary Clinton enjoys a big advantage that none of her predecessors at the US state department have had.Wednesday
15 July '09Although China is only an observer at the 15th Non-Aligned Summit this week, Beijing’s diplomatic, political and economic influence....