The Writings of M D Nalapat

M D Nalapat Unlike more conservative societies such as Saudi Arabia, which prize uniformity and discourage diversity, India prides its...

M D Nalapat Prime Minister Rajiv Ratna Birjees Gandhi’s political future was permanently darkened by the 1987 revelati...

M D Nalapat Wafting through the corridors of North Block, the abode of India’s sprawling Home Ministry, are rumours that Congress Pres...

M D Nalapat Visitors to China will go to book stores without seeing a single copy of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the ...

M D Nalapat Although as yet far behind in quantitative terms, the Indian elite see their country as China’s equal. While rates of grow...

M D Nalapat Besides the current Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, India has had three PMs who were very much in favour of reaching out t...

M D Nalapat  Until General Zia-ul-Haq sought to align Pakistan culturally with Saudi Arabia in the 1970s by changing the laws of the l...

M.D. Nalapat  Manipal, India — Quiet surveys conducted through multiple sources indicate that the root of the spasms of "curry bashi...

MD Nalapat Manipal, India — Once in office, U.S. President Barack Obama apparently decided to abandon his own policy preferences in favor ...

M. D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Those intent on ensuring that the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is free of th...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore may have lost his bid for the U.S. presidency, but he did beat current Pr...

The Diplomat speaks with Lawrence Prabhakar, Professor of Political Science at India's Madras Christian College, about Manmohan Singh...

By Madhav Das Nalapat   November 1, 2009 Although there has been some mockery of the Nobel Committee's award of the Peace Prize ...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Those familiar with the situation on the ground in Afghanistan are aware that only around 17 percent of th...

M.D. Nalapat  Manipal, India — More than radical Islam, the threat to the primacy of the West will come from Sinic civilization, cen...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — The Muslim World League, an organization funded by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, held its third interre...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — This columnist was among the first outside the United States to cheer on, in February 2008, the ascent...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — At precisely the moment that U.S. President Barack Obama is returning to the road travelled by Bill Cl...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — If the Taliban are gaining ground in Afghanistan, the reason lies less in their prowess than the daily...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — During the 1960s, the United States had a president who did more for the underclass than most of his p...

M.D. Nalapat When floods hit the largely Buddhist enclave of Leh in Kashmir recently, the chief minister Omar Abdullah, representatives o...