It is in all probability a sheer coincidence that Mr. L.I. Mendelevich, the top Soviet negotiator with the USA on the question of the demilitarization of the Indian Ocean, should have come to Delhi in the wake of a shift in Ethiopia’s favour in its war with Somalia. But coincidence … Read More
By claiming that Egypt and Israel are in complete agreement on the principle of a total Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula, President Sadat has confirmed, though indirectly, the correctness of the charge that he is in effect prepared to make a separate deal with Tel Aviv. He doubtless continues … Read More
On the eve of Mr. Callaghan’s arrival in New Delhi, Britain has given India five grants totalling £144 million (Rs. 228 crores), the biggest ever to this country by London. This is a gesture of goodwill which no one here can fail to appreciate. This is so specially because while … Read More
It will be a gross exaggeration to say that President Carter’s visit to New Delhi has been a fiasco. But it has not been a glorious success either. Mr. Morarji Desai did not invite him, and he did not accept the invitation, in the expectation of resolving the basic differences … Read More
Mrs. Gandhi and her cohorts have finally split the great Indian National Congress and they have done it in an utterly cold calculated and cynical manner. She had clearly made up her mind by December 18 when she had her letter of resignation from the Working Committee delivered to the … Read More
If there is one, just one, lesson to be drawn from the disclosures before the Shah commission, it is that the top, and indeed not so top, civil servants must never again be placed in a position where they feel obliged to obey patently unfair and inhuman orders. Yet this … Read More
Contrary to the popular belief both in India and abroad, India’s foreign policy had undergone substantial change after 1971 during Mrs Indira Gandhi’s tenure of office as Prime Minister. This fact was obscured from public view because, largely for domestic reasons, she continued to use the old anti-imperialist rhetoric. She … Read More
Only one explanation is possible for the inordinately lengthy – it runs to 35,000 words – article the Peking People’s Daily carried from its “editorial department” on Mao Tse-tung’s theory of the three worlds last month – more than a year after his death. It is that the present leadership … Read More
While the Janata is essentially a product of the emergency and some of Mrs. Gandhi’s actions since President Zakir Hussain’s death in May 1969, leading first to a split in the Congress and then to a host of other developments, a common, though for long invisible, thread in the form … Read More
Though precious little is known of the reasons which have persuaded the President and the Prime Minister of India to invite President Carter to Delhi it can safely be said that the visit will at best have symbolic significance. Indo-US relations are not likely to move to a new level … Read More
