The Writings of M D Nalapat

M D Nalapat Especially since the 1971 defeat of the Pakistan Army in the east, the ISI has been seeking to weaken - and if possible de...

M.D. Nalapat The Truman administration ended the brief dalliance with Asian nationalism that had been begun by Franklin Roosevelt,who as...

M D Nalapat One of the country’s most prestigious newspapers, The Hindu,has been carrying a series based on the 5000 Wikileaks cable...

M.D. Nalapat In 1982, Ariel Sharon decided to intervene on behalf of the Maronite Christians of Lebanon, against the Shia. He gave weapons...

By M.D. Nalapat The 2009 defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the death of their supreme leader Velupillai Pr...

M D Nalapat   Clients of banks based in the capitals of countries that are NATO members say that service is excellent, so long as times...

M D Nalapat While politicians in India often talk about the prevalence of the “black” ( ie illegal) economy in India, especially when ...

M D Nalapat The Ides of March proved fatal to Gaius Julius Ceasar more than two thousand years ago, when he was felled by a large grou...

M D Nalapat After nearly three decades of faithfully serving the interests of the NATO powers, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may ha...

M D Nalapat Banks that will not lend to companies even at very high rates of interest, because bank officers are wary of being questio...

M D Nalapat As India entered the 62nd year of the founding of the Republic, television screens were filled not by the ritualistic para...

M D Nalapat Giving a rival credit is always difficult, so it is no wonder that few commentators in Europe, North America and India men...

M D Nalapat Although romantics stress the “closeness” between India and Pakistan (especially when they go armed with candles to the Wa...

M D Nalapat Most parts of the creaky - and corrupt — bureaucracy that swallows up more than a third of national income are unaware tha...

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...