The Writings of M D Nalapat

M.D. Nalapat After a gap of more than six years, your columnist is once again in the country that a century ago ran half the world. ...

M D Nalapat After a gap of more than six years, your columnist is once again in the country that a century ago ran half the world. For...

M D Nalapat Till two centuries ago, China comprised about 35% of the global economy while India accounted for around 26%. Only after t...

M D Nalapat Had Manmohan Singh ended his political career as Finance Minister of India during 1992-96, he would have earned a few page...

M D Nalapat As Asian allies of the US know, in making demands - sorry, requests –of them, Washington looks only at what it perceives t...

M D Nalapat Under its energetic Vice-Chancellor, Seyed Hasnain, the venerable University of Hyderabad has sought to improve both its i...

M D Nalapat Unlike the catastrophe in Haiti, which was extensively covered in international media, there has been much less coverage o...

M D Nalapat Far and away the most powerful person in India, Congress President and United Progressive Alliance Chairpe...

M D Nalapat The only two countries in the world that each have a billion-plus population are India and China, and there is corruption...

M D Nalapat Although many within the subcontinent point to the simillarities, the reality is that by the dawn of the 21st century, at ...

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 ...