The new deal: When Bush comes to shove
India must treat the nuclear agreement with the United States as a standalone deal and reject the idea of any broader fusion of strategic interests. From Iran, Iraq and Palestine … Continue reading
The U.S. and the Iran pipeline: Did Bush really blink?
For the first time in ages, my old newspaper, the Times of India, has a thoughtful piece on foreign policy with Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph analysing the … Continue reading
Nuclear deal: The action now shifts to Washington
Following the March 2 agreement on the separation of India’s military and civilian nuclear facilities, the United States is moving ahead with its obligation to amend domestic statutes in order … Continue reading
Bush, India and two degrees of separation
Thanks to public debate and hard bargaining, India’s scientists have had many of their technical concerns about the nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States addressed. But India must resist … Continue reading
The separation puzzle
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Parliament on February 27 that India was offering to place “a number of our thermal nuclear reactors as civilian facilities to be placed under IAEA … Continue reading
That Syrian oil deal: Government lies about U.S. pressure
On January 28, I had reported in The Hindu how the U.S. had handed over an aide memoire to the Ministry of External Affairs demanding that India back out of … Continue reading
Nepal, India and the long shadow of Moriarty
America’s ambassador in Kathmandu, James Moriarty, has denounced an agreement between the Maoists and the Nepalese parliamentary parties that New Delhi sets much store by. [Coincidence: Both men pictured here … Continue reading
Perils of three-way security cooperation
Tokyo wants India, Japan, and the U.S. to develop a trilateral framework for security cooperation. But New Delhi has good reason to be wary. 14 February 2006The Hindu Perils of … Continue reading
A question mark now hangs over the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal
Unless Washington blinks on the Fast Breeder reactor and voluntary safeguards, the agreement will not fly in India. 7 February 2006The Hindu Question mark over Indo-U.S. nuclear dealSiddharth Varadarajan FOR … 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
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
Siddharth Varadarajan 