Hindustan Times
National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently but he negotiates with Beijing in English. He is a pedigreed diplomat with roots in Kerala, but he is equally at ease with Punjabi aggressiveness in Delhi — including all the cuss words. Read more
(62 votes, average: 4.85 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing, Brajesh Mishra, china, Dalai Lama, Gulf of Aden, Hu Jintao, India, Mandarin Chinese, Manmohan Singh, MK Narayanan, National Security Advisor, ONGC, Shishir Gupta, Shiv Shankar Menon, South China Sea, Tibet, UPA government
After BJP’s dismal performance in the 2009 elections, the Sangh Parivar led by Mohan Bhagwat approached party patriarch LK Advani to decide the successor to party president Rajnath Singh, whose rather lacklustre term was coming to end in December that year. Read more
(32 votes, average: 4.63 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7:50 am
Filed under India · Tagged 2014 general elections, Anant Kumar, BJP, Gulberg Society riot case, Jaswant Singh, L K Advani, Mohan Bhagwat, Narendra Modi, NDA, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, sadhbhavana fast, Sangh Parivar, Sushma Swaraj, UPA government, Venkaiah Naidu, Yashwant Sinha
