International Affairs - South Asia

An interview given by Ambassador Shukla to Mr Hindol Sengupta of Global Order on recent developments. The viewer will find a detailed...

Ignoramuses in Glass Houses Throwing Stones Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Saying “Assassination Wanted” a poster in Canada raised by...

The Escalating Confrontation Over India Between President Xi and the PLA Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The Galwan clash of June 2020 gutted...

Xi Jinping’s Visit to Moscow, 2023 Xi: Changes are coming, which haven’t happened in a hundred years – and we are driving them together.”...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The People’s Republic acts; the rest issue statements Quad member-states' ships at Exercise Malabar,...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla In upholding the centrality of the Black Sea in Russian strategic thinking, did Putin do too much too soon?...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Implications for India, the Indo-Pacific, and the UN system in the history of the Republic of China L to R:...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla “The fact of the matter is, we can do all we need to do without punishing anybody, anybody…China is going to...

Mackinder for the Twenty-first Century Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland ...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Xi Jinping seeks an accommodation with India; the PLA is implacably hostile It was December 2012: Xi Jinping...

Indo-US Relations: Need for the Right Setting Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The upcoming visit of President Obama as Guest of Honour for...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The China-Pakistan relationship goes back to the early 1960’s - 1963 saw the boundary agreement, and served...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla With all major foreign engagements, it takes a little time – or longer – for the full facts and implications...

Omar [L] and Mansour [R] – Omar’s death in 2013 was hidden for two years; Mansour was chosen as his successor. A good starting point for...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Prime Minister Modi [R] with President Xi Jinping [L] A clear-eyed assessment of the Prime Minister’s visit...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The best that can be hoped for is that the inevitable break-up happens before there is any lasting damage...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The hype over the nuclear deal has obscured the main achievement of the Obama visit: this is in the Joint...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla There is an effort among some western commentaries – taken up and amplified by the Pakistanis - to try and...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla Developing ties with Japan, China, and Australia It has been a busy September for India’s external...

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...