Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla A Novice Looks at the BJP’s win at the recent General Elections The period 1987 – 89 was a watershed one in...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla contribution to collection of reminiscences by former Heads of Mission in Singapore published by the...

The Neighbour from Hell Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The decision to call off the scheduled Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The historical record sheds positive light on JFK It is fifty years since the assassination of President...

The neighbour from Hell Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The run-up to the summit between the Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers had seen a...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The Current Western Assessment The western analysis on Afghanistan is that their forces had gone into the...

October 2013 Dealing with the neighbour from Hell The run-up to the summit between the Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers had seen a...

The People’s Republic acts; the rest issue statements In order to rectify the above state of affairs, it is becoming imperative for the...

Vice President Biden was in India for four days in July, visiting Delhi and Mumbai. The visit got less than the usual level of media...

The Neighbour from Hell “Phir ek baar kiya, to dekhna” is not effective policy As tensions rise between India and Pakistan, the usual...

There is an effort among some western commentaries – taken up and amplified by the Pakistanis - to try and project the situation in...

The new Chinese leaders have been active in foreign affairs almost immediately after taking over their new offices in March this year....

PART I: Economic Developments Centre of gravity shifts to China from Japan in the 1990s The period since the end of the Cold War has seen...

The thirteenth Indo-Russian Summit was a fleeting affair, with President Putin spending less than twenty-four hours in Delhi. It came as...

The neighbour from hell To the insistent clamour that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must visit Pakistan in the near future, this is a...

Most of the British and European nationals who came to India in the 18th and 19th centuries were simply dismayed at its vast geographical...

One important chapter of the Anna movement has ended; a new one is set to begin. Time, perhaps, to pause and take stock of what went...

The recent round of talks between the Indian and Pakistan bureaucratic establishments has come to another uneasy pause with the Foreign...

“Since Tibet is not the same as China, it should ultimately be the wishes of the people of Tibet that should prevail and not any legal or...

An examination of the history of the Indo-American engagement since Indian Independence shows that there were three major occasions when...