The Writings of M D Nalapat

M D Nalapat Although society in Europe and in the US has evolved significantly since the period when that continent enslaved much of t...

M D Nalapat While some NGOs are run by sincere individuals interested not in personal but in social gain, many of the organisations acti...

The Middle East is crucial to the stability of South Asian currencies. It is the main source of remittances from nine million people from ...

By Madhav Nalapat That India's Prime Minister is an honest man is well known. Even better known is the fact that he’s thus...

M. D. Nalapat This columnist switched from journalism to academics in 1999, by which year it was more important for newspapers in Indi...

M. D. Nalapat China, India, Russia and Brazil — now joined by South Africa — are fast-growing economies that have recently taken up a lot o...

M.D. Nalapat WITHIN the constellation of cultures that comprise the glory that is India, the people of Bengal have a special place. For cen...

M.D. Nalapat Although President George W Bush understood the need to ensure parity for India with France and the UK in a 21st century a...

M.D. Nalapat India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was born in what would become Pakistan in 1947, which is perhaps why he has so oft...

M D Nalapat Ninety-five years ago, Britain and France got together to divide the Arab world. The 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement formalised...

BY M.D. Nalapat Amidst the rejoicing over NATO’s fight for the ‘liberation’ of Libya from Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade-long rule...

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...