Already beleaguered and wracked by infighting, India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has been a subject of much mirth in the sub-continent this month after the five Pakistanis it identified as infiltrating terrorists turned out to small time businessmen and a security guard from Lahore. [Read more]

Unlike her husband and former US president Bill Clinton, who administrated a sugar coated pill to Indian Parliamentarians post-Pokhran on non-proliferation, CTBT and dialogue with Pakistan in March 2001, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton does not mince words or believe in diplomatic parlance of the bygone era. [Read more]

Localitis often afflicts diplomats on foreign assignments with classical symptoms of routinely defending actions of the host nation. [Read more]

It has become an annual ritual. Come April 21, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the bloated Indian bureaucracy to celebrate the Civil Services Day. Young IAS, IPS officers and their rather cynical seniors will be lectured on the need for a corruption free, meritorious and politically neutral bureaucracy. [Read more]

The electoral message for the Congress and the BJP in the recently concluded Assembly elections was rather sharp and blunt as regional parties threaten to overtake the two mainstream national parties. In spite of what the political spin doctors may say, weak ruling authority at the centre has always led to chaos in Indian history. [Read more]