The government and the people of India heaved a sigh of relief when the so-called ghallughara (genocide) week in Punjab passed off peacefully. But that is about all that can be said on the positive side about the situation in Punjab right now. No one can even be sure why … Read More
BOTH the United States and India have spelt out their opening positions for the forthcoming discussions between President Reagan and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and their aides. These run along familiar lines and cannot therefore provide the basis it for a significantly higher level of political understanding between the two … Read More
Mr Rajiv Gandhi’s forthcoming visit to the United States could mark a turning point in India’s foreign relations. This is by no means certain. For one thing, it is far from certain that the US actions will match the rhetoric of some of its policy-makers even in the short run. … Read More
As Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi prepares to leave for Moscow next Tuesday, he would do well to assume that the Soviet leadership would wish to take a measure of him and his ideological orientation just as he and his aides would wish to assess Mr. Gorbachov who is also new … Read More
The economic policy resolution which the All-India Congress Committee adopted on Sunday is very different from the one which had originally been prepared by a four-man drafting committee. While it would be an exaggeration to say that traditional Congressmen favouring a left-of-the-centre stance have forced a retreat on the part … Read More
Religion matters everywhere in the world including in the West where over the past four centuries science and technology have promoted a secular approach to life. Inevitably it matters all the more in India which has not witnessed any comparable revolution. So it is only right that we take it … Read More
In discussions of Indo-US relations, one point generally tends to get ignored, in our case because we are not sufficiently sensitive to consideration of power and in theirs because the shrewder among them do not wish to spell out such considerations. The point is that there were three potential successors … Read More
Any discussion of America’s South Asia policy must of necessity begin with Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan in December, 1979. For it is open to question whether even the right wing and avowedly anti-Soviet Reagan administration would otherwise have decided to rearm Pakistan in disregard of India’s protests. We in … Read More
AMERICANS have expected a change in India’s foreign policy approach and therefore an improvement in Indo-US relations every time there has been a change of Prime Minister in this country. They entertained such hopes when Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded Mr. Nehru in 1964, when Mrs. Gandhi succeeded Mr. Shastri … Read More
In any discussion of the future prospect of Indo-US relations, we should take note of a new element that has entered the picture. Which is that there now exists in the United States a popular awareness of India the like of which has seldom been witnessed before. A variety of … Read More
