The Writings of M D Nalapat

M D Nalapat The past few days, this columnist has been in Colombo, the serene capital of the beautiful island of Sri Lanka, a country ...

BY M.D. Nalapat That old habits die hard is clear from the way in which the functionaries of the European Union seek to influence t...

M D Nalapat It used to be said that Joe Biden was the only US Senator who was not a millionaire. Now, he is the Vice-President. Unlike...

M D Nalapat Since he took office for a second 5-year term in 2009, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been a changed man. During 2004-2...

M D Nalapat During the last quarter of 2010, the Heads of Government of all the P-5 (Permanent Five in UN Security Council) will have ...

M D Nalapat The Union Home Minister of India, Palanipaan Chidambaram, was among the highest-paid lawyers in the country even while he ...

M D Nalapat Iran has figured significantly in the Indian strategic calculus for a considerable period of time. Although relations with...

M D Nalapat During her younger days, the present Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha (House of the People, or Lower House in Par...

M D Nalapat During the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidential term, “Billary” ( Bill and Hillary Clinton) has been his motto. ...

M D Nalapat Over the past month, a troupe of Obama backers have descended on India, seeking to soften opinion in the country ahead of ...

M D Nalapat Within a week, President Barack Obama will come to India on a three-day visit,” the most time that he has spent in a singl...

M D Nalapat In the 1960s for over three decades, probably the most influential non-official individual resident in India was Ottavio Qu...

M.D. Nalapat When President Barack Obama travels to India in early November, he will be visiting a country much more conscious of skin...

M D Nalapat Together with Kashmir, a territory that divides the Pakistan establishment from its counterpart in India is Afghanistan, a...

M D Nalapat During the last quarter of 2010, the Heads of Government of all the P-5 (Permanent Five in UN Security Council) will have vis...

M D Nalapat Although efforts have been made over the past twenty years to bring Islamic banking into India — a country that has more M...

M D Nalapat When Bill Clinton fought against George Bush Senior in the 1992 US Presidential elections, he kept the focus on the econom...

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...