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India Should Stop “Using” Mahatma Gandhi

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is visiting India.  Today he met with the President of India Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapathi Bhawan.  The Indian Express had a photo of the President and the Prime Minister sitting next to each other with a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the middle.  There is a garland around Mahatma [...]

Nehru’s Policy Blunders on China & Pakistan?

In India as in most countries in the world there is a tendency to look back at history in a different light as time goes by.  This is human nature.  We judge the past based on today’s standards.  Many of the people whom we judge, their friends, family members or associates are not alive to [...]

Welcome Back President Bush

“This may be my last visit to you during your presidency and let me say, thank you very much.  The people of India deeply love you”.  These were the words uttered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to then President George Bush when he visited the United States in September of last year. 

No Preconditions for Talks with Pakistan but …

During his visit to Kashmir yesterday the Prime Minister of India said that there are no preconditions for talks with Pakistan but Pakistan must curb terror.  He mentioned that “the talks cannot make headway unless there is effective control of the terror groups operating in that country”.  His comments are to some extent