Joyeeta Basu

Hard times for Pak army’s blue-eyed boy

May 10, 2023

In Imran Khan’s career trajectory, there is a lesson for every future Pakistan Prime Minister, on how in a country where the military is king, there is no guarantee that even the generals’ blue-eyed boy will not be pulled down from his high perch if he is perceived to have...

India should leave the Commonwealth

May 3, 2023

Britain is about to coronate its new king, and in the process is trying to recapture the glory of the long dead British empire by giving a distinctly Commonwealth twist to the events. Former colonies comprising the Commonwealth are expected to queue up to pay tribute to the monarchy because...

Time to take another look at India-Russia relations

May 1, 2023

Russia’s outburst against the Quad at last week’s SCO defence ministers’ meeting in New Delhi, should have added to New Delhi’s worries about Moscow reaching a point of no return as far as rushing into Beijing’s embrace is concerned. The Russian Defence Minister, Sergey Shoigu, was scathing about the Quad,...

Mr Macron goes to China

April 11, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron seems to have had an epiphany of sorts where he has realised, what is in the interest of the US and China may not be in the interest of Europe. While speaking of the “rivalry” between the United States and China, Macron, while returning from Beijing...

Mr Macron goes to China

April 10, 2023

Which way is the US headed?

April 5, 2023

The world is watching with interest the unfolding of the latest chapter in the Donald Trump saga—a former President of the United States getting arrested and facing 136 years in prison if convicted. Some see in this the robustness of the US judicial system, where the world’s most important democracy...

Anti-India narrative building must stop

March 30, 2023

When Joe Biden assumed the office of the President of the US in 2020, there was some apprehension in India that his earlier campaign rhetoric against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act may impact India-US relations. It didn’t happen obviously because as President he would have been briefed about the actual situation,...

Ominous message from Xi-Putin meeting

March 23, 2023

CCP general secretary Xi Jinping went to Russia to shake hands with President Vladimir Putin and promised to deliver a new world order—together. He may have stopped short of expressing outright support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but his camaraderie with Putin made it clear on which side of the...

Britain ‘complicit’ in attack on Indian high commission

March 21, 2023

A disturbing incident of an attack on the Indian high commission in London took place on Sunday, where Khalistani radicals climbed up the first floor balcony of the high commission and threw down the Tricolour with the intention to set it on fire and tried to put up a Khalistani...

Australia must ban Khalistani groups

March 16, 2023

A worrying report coming from Australia says that Khalistani radicals forced the shutting down of the Indian consulate in Brisbane, this week. The local police, apart from saying that it was an unauthorized gathering by the Khalistanis, apparently did nothing. This comes in the wake of the several attacks that...

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