Hindustan Times
Australian Prime Minister Julia Guillard deserves a small prize for her persistent wooing of India. Despite the fact that it is the turn of an Indian prime minister to visit Australia, she decided to forget the protocol and come to New Delhi anyway. Sensible, given that the last time an Indian prime minister went to Australia was an absurd quarter of a century ago. Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.2 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Filed under India, World · Tagged Australia, Australian Prime Minister, foreign hand, HINDUSTAN Times, Julia Guillard, Kevin Rudd, New Delhi, news, Nuclear, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Pokhran II, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
The Maldivian political crisis is a suitable reminder of how difficult it is to run a sphere of influence. This archipelago nation should be a snap for New Delhi. Read more
(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:27 am
Filed under World · Tagged foreign hand, India, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Maldives, Male, Mohammed Nasheed, New Delhi, pakistan, Pramit Pal Choudhuri, Sri Lanka
Japan is on the nuclear brink, the jasmine revolution is withering and the Indian parliament is in an uproar over a Wikileak document about how money was used to buy votes in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal. Having immersed myself all day in these issues, I will write about something completely different. Read more
(10 votes, average: 3.3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 1:20 am
Filed under World · Tagged EU, Europe, India, India-Europe relation, Indo-US nuclear deal, Japan, New Delhi, United States, Wikileak
In the Zone
In the capital of Western Australia for my second stint at the local university’s In the Zone conference, I’m reminded again how much the country’s only Indian Ocean facing state is determined to seek a worldview distinct from that of the more populous bits of Australia that face the Pacific. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:27 am
Filed under World · Tagged agriculture, Australia, Canberra, China, coal, cricket, crops, diamond, economy, gold, In the Zone, India, Indian Ocean, inflation, iron ore, Melbourne, Monsoon, New Delhi, Perth, Robert Kaplan, rocks, Sydney, United States, Western Australia
The appointment of the Khanal government in Nepal, accomplished after xx number of failed attempts at installing a prime minister, is broadly seen in New Delhi as a positive. Read more
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, February 11, 2011 at 12:50 am
Filed under World · Tagged Jhalanath Khanal, Kathmandu, Khanal government, Maoist, Marxist, Nepal, Nepal Congress, Nepalese politics, New Delhi, People's Liberation Army, Prachanda, United Marxist Leninist party
Indians take deserving pride in their space programme – the odd failed rocket launch notwithstanding. Read more
(8 votes, average: 4.38 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, January 21, 2011 at 12:08 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged foreign hand, foreign policy, hindustantimes, HT blogs, ISRO, New Delhi, news, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, space diplomacy, space research
Why Holbrooke is a model for diplomats of an aspiring power.
What, I am occasionally asked, is so great about Richard Holbrooke? Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Filed under World · Tagged afghanistan, AfPak agenda, Asia, barack obama, climate change, diplomat, Europe, hamid karzai, Kabul, kashmir, Muslim, New Delhi, pakistan, political consensus, Richard Holbrooke, Serbia's war, Washington, Wikileaks
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just gave a speech on US foreign policy and the world at large at the Council for Foreign Relations. Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, September 10, 2010 at 1:35 am
Filed under World · Tagged Arabian Sea, Calcutta, China, economies, Foreign Relations, GDP, global player, Indian Ocean, Iran, New Delhi, sea lanes, Somali pirate, South Africa, United Progressive Alliance, US, US foreign policy, US navy, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, warships, Washington
The next Economist, or at least the Asian one, is going to have “Contest of the Century: India versus China” as its cover. Read more
(16 votes, average: 3.44 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 1:24 am
Filed under World · Tagged Asian, China, Chinese Communist Party, corporate sector, economic difference, Economist, growth rate, Guardian, India, India versus China, infrastructure, manufacturing sector, media, New Delhi, obama, pakistan, population, UK
Flitting in and out of the recent Advance Australia meeting in New Delhi, I was asked to speak about global citizenship. The audience, mostly Australian diaspora living in India, were interested in down-to-things like India’s impossible visa system for foreign residents and the like. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Advance Australia, Aristotle, Australia, English Premier Football League, India, New Delhi, United Nations
