Lifting the veil from the Security Council
Javier Perez de Cuellar told Chinmaya R. Gharekhan of India in 1991 that the U.N. Secretary-General’s job had lost its charm now that the Cold War had ended and the … Continue reading
Pouring troubled water on oil
Regular readers of my pieces on energy issues would have noticed the key role India’s oil minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, was playing in pushing cooperation between India and China, Iran … Continue reading
After Iran gas, U.S. tells India to back off Syrian oil
It’s not just Iran the Bush administration wants India to keep away from when it comes to energy matters. Syria has also joined the list of countries Washington says India … Continue reading
Coming to terms with nuclear regime change
Reviled by some in India as the “ayatollahs of non-proliferation”, Michael Krepon of the Stimson Center and Leonard Spector of the Centre for Nonproliferation Studies are leading the charge against … Continue reading
India casting a wide net in its hunt for energy
But tactic calls for political dexterity. [A story I wrote on the request of the International Herald Tribune about the emerging tension between India’s quest for nuclear energy cooperation from … Continue reading
Energy the key in the new Asian architecture
Pipelines bring mutual dependencies and hasten regional integration. India must not let the strings attached to the U.S. offer of nuclear cooperation — or its usual insecurities — choke off … Continue reading
The Asian axis of oil
The new Sino-Indian partnership in oil and gas could serve as the foundation for an Asian Energy Union and much more. 24 January 2006The Hindu India, China and the Asian … Continue reading
Indo-U.S. nuclear deal: Safeguards for breeder reactors a key obstacle
Exclusive: A close look at the state of negotiations between India and United States on the implementation of last July’s Indo-U.S. nuclear deal suggests things are not going as smoothly … Continue reading
Make the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal more transparent
If the civil-military separation plan is good enough to share with a foreign power, it is certainly good enough to share with the Indian public. 19 January 2005The Hindu Make … Continue reading
India, Iran and the nuclear challenge
Siding again with the U.S. and its allies in their illegal pressure on Iran will weaken India’s hand on the civil nuclear cooperation and energy fronts. 16 January 2006The Hindu … Continue reading
Dateline Beijing: Despite U.S. pressure, India still committed to Iran pipeline
The American embassy in Delhi issued a demarche before the last round of talks between India, Pakistan and Iran expressing its displeasure at the proposed pipeline project. And Condoleezza Rice … Continue reading
Dateline Beijing: India and China have taken a major step forward on the energy front
If implemented, the agreement on joint bidding for energy assets in third countries will further reduce the dominance of the United States and Western majors in the oil and gas … Continue reading
When power subverts the law
Two seminal books question the possibility of international criminal justice in a unipolar world 10 January 2006The Hindu When power subverts the law Siddharth Varadarajan HOW AMERICA GETS AWAY WITH … Continue reading
Terror of the ‘war against terror’
Is there room within this rapid “securitisation” of life for individual freedoms and civic concerns to assert themselves? 1 January 2006Sunday Magazine, The Hindu Terror of the ‘war against terror’ … Continue reading
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