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Tuesday, 2 November 2004

Bin Laden's Real Message (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MAINPAL, India, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Where the United States performs superlatively is in the collection of information. Whe...
Thursday, 28 October 2004

Musharraf Calls the Bluff (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- While most U.S. secretaries of state -- save perhaps Dean Rusk -- have gobbled up credit fo...
Thursday, 2 September 2004

Whose Truth? (Far Eastern Economic Review)

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Book review by Prof Nalapat 'Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy and the Bomb - Strobe Talbott' Nalapat, Madhav. Far Eastern Ec...
Thursday, 15 July 2004

Emergent Eurasian Colossus (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPUR, India, July 15 (UPI) -- "East is east, and west is west, and ne'er the twain shall meet." Rudyard Ki...
Wednesday, 30 June 2004

It's money, not Modi (Asian Age)

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By M.D.  Nalapat   The pundits have spoken. The 2004 verdict was a rejection by rural India of the city-centric BJP. Also, a recoil from t...
Saturday, 26 June 2004

Avoid a Kuwait in Taiwan (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, July 25 (UPI) -- During his decade-long battle with Iran, Saddam Hussein was the recipient of supp...
Thursday, 27 May 2004

Vajpayee Fades Out at Last (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat  MANIPAL, India, May 27 (UPI) -- Former Indian prime ministers A.B. Vajpayee and P.V. Narasimha Rao are close friends, bu...
Friday, 23 April 2004

Sabahism, not Wahabbism (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, April 23 (UPI) -- Kuwait is a tiny sliver of land sandwiched between the three regional giants of Iraq, Iran...
Friday, 14 November 2003

Move the UN to Ethiopia (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Those responsible for the creation of the United Nations conglomerate were idealists, intent o...
Sunday, 12 October 2003

The Battlefield is the Mind (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- After World War I, the consequences of the Versailles "peace" were the rise ...
Friday, 3 October 2003

To Win in Iraq, Change Tack (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat  MANIPAL, India, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Foreign troops arrive as liberators, receiving a rapturous welcome from the local pop...
Monday, 23 June 2003

U.S. losing Mind War in Iraq

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M.D. Nalapat  MANIPAL, India, June 23 (UPI) -- After World War I, the consequences of the Versailles "peace" were the rise of ...
Friday, 6 June 2003

Constrain, not contain, China (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, June 6 (UPI) -- Second of two parts The Clinton administration tried to recruit Communist China as a stra...
Tuesday, 3 June 2003

Constraining China (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPUR, India, June 3 (UPI) -- After it became clear that Winston Churchill had been right at Fulton, Missouri after World W...
Saturday, 26 April 2003

Why not an Asian NATO? (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat  MANIPUR, India, April 26 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other war planners in the Pentagon may bridle at the...
Monday, 25 November 2002

The Clash of Civilizations (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Our new 21st century is seeing religion-based extremism and authoritarian attempts at hege...
Monday, 11 November 2002

Mind Wars and Iraq (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- After World War I, the great powers imposed a peace on Germany that led to a fresh conflag...
Friday, 6 September 2002

The Eagle Spreads its Wings (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Since partial economic liberalization freed the Indian economy from the "Nehru" r...
Tuesday, 3 September 2002

Indo-Pakistan Nuclear Myth (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat MANIPAL, India, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Since the mid-1980s, there has been a vigorous campaign by academics in the United States ...
Sunday, 4 August 2002

Ending 'Bootleg' Immigration (UPI)

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M.D. Nalapat WASHINGTON, India, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- What is inevitable cannot be prevented. It can only be redirected in ways either less ...
Saturday, 15 June 2002

India and Russia: With China or the U.S.? (UPI)

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M.D Nalapat MANIPIL, India, June 15 (UPI) -- Under Russian President Vladimir Putin ties between India and Russia have recovered th...
Saturday, 18 May 2002

Sonia to Vajpayee: Anyone but Alexander (Rediff)

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Last month, Congress President Sonia Gandhi requested a meeting with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who -- as he has always done wit...
Thursday, 22 June 2000

Preserve the values of our Indic civilisation (Rediff)

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Years ago, when it was still fashionable to knock India, V S Naipaul wrote sneeringly of the way Indians relieved themselves "everywh...
Saturday, 18 March 2000

Clinton's two real loves (Rediff)

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Small wonder that Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Kishanchand Advani have upgraded Sonia Gandhi's security cover to equal that given to t...