India cracks down on climate change wreckers
The Indian government falls off Obama's low-emission bandwagon and puts Greenpeace and other ‘activist’ groups under the scanner, saying the climate change agenda is hurting economic growth
- 22 June 2014
An Indian immigrant's view: Leftist indoctrination in Europe
The Leftwing narrative is running unopposed on European campuses. The institutions of higher learning that once heralded the age of enlightenment are looking more and more like Leftwing, neo-totalitarian Seminaries, and I say that coming from India
- 5 March 2014
A New World Order making current politics redundant
We are seeing a revolution in the world order which may well become the hallmark of the 21st Century. This revolution is a triple clash between politics, economics and radical changes in society
- 29 January 2014
An India-America mess of quite farcical proportions
A diplomatic blunder and the incompetence of U.S. legal representatives led to results that are almost unspeakable (though we do relate them). But it looks like game, set and match to the wily Indians. It would seem that US diplomacy is as useless as its national security
- 27 December 2013
The view from India: New world order
When 'Middle East' was introduced into the dictionary of geopolitics early in the 20th century, India was the east beyond the middle. India was British. Now it is one of the great pivotal powers in the emerging new world order. Apart from anything else, India and China will compete for space vacated by the US
- 23 December 2013
India and Israel: Democracies that should deepen ties
Both are homelands for ancient peoples who gained their independence from the British in the 1940s. Both created vibrant, multicultural democracies and tech-driven economies
- 25 August 2013
Campaigners lob BRICS at Syrian crisis
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are being urged to act, as the "only powerful governments left"
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People of the Commonwealth are family, not foreigners
The UK puts £350 in to the EU for every £1 it puts into the Commonwealth. What better time to begin redressing that imbalance than Commonwealth Day?
- 11 March 2013
The war against Valentine's Day in South Asia
The fact that people prioritise campaigning against Valentine's Day in a part of the world with so many problems is absurd and disturbing
- 14 February 2013
Aid and trade: Our future with India
Why can Canada, Australia, and New Zealand deal with India, yet the UK not?
- 26 November 2012
US set to become world's largest oil producer by 2020
Could the US' move towards energy independence and supremacy throw a spanner in the works for some of the world's most despotic regimes?
- 14 November 2012
The Commonwealth - a route to prosperity
As the UK struggles for growth and our EU partners stagnate we should look to Anglophone nations that can help Great Britain prosper once more
- 15 October 2012
British diplomats posted in India are to learn 'Hinglish'
While we are trying at home to raise standards by re-marking English GCSE exam papers to improve the standard, the Ambassador is asked to learn a parody of it.
- 12 October 2012
Kyoto: The last rites
Where better than the Qatari capital to perform the last rites over the Kyoto Protocol?
- 1 October 2012
Chinese whispers: Obama's muddled Beijing strategy
The US needs to maintain its defence tech superiority, control sea lanes to China, bolster its alliances with middling military powers such as Japan and India - and it needs to spend the money to do all this
- 27 September 2012
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