Neocon lite nuclear agenda: A review of George Perkovich et al.’s "Universal Compliance: A strategy for nuclear security"
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has come up with a liberal counter-proliferation Bible whose selective implementation will likely leave the world more unequal – and dangerous. 11 October 2005The … Continue reading
A revealing transcript
The full transcript of the House International Relations Committee on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal surely provides a key part of the backstory to India’s astonishing vote against Iran in the … Continue reading
The unravelling of India’s Persian puzzle
By voting against Iran in the IAEA, India has put its alliance with the United States above any concern of national interest, energy security or international law. 27 September 2005The … Continue reading
Much more than Modi: A review of Yagnik and Sheth’s ‘The Shaping of Modern Gujarat’
History usually begins or restarts at that prosaic, magical or bloody moment when civilisation dawns or is extinguished. If February 2002 was such a moment for Gujarat—when the Narendra Modi … Continue reading
The Persian Puzzle III: The world must stand firm on diplomacy
The ‘nuclear crisis’ is the product of 15 years of American hostility towards Iran. Any solution that does not deal with this reality is bound to fail. 23 September 2005The … Continue reading
The Persian Puzzle II: What the IAEA really found in Iran
The best way for the world to satisfy itself that there are no undeclared nuclear activities in Iran is for the IAEA to use its inspection rights under the Additional … Continue reading
The Persian Puzzle I: Iran and the invention of a nuclear crisis
The world has forgotten everything and learned nothing from the charade over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 21 September 2005The Hindu THE PERSIAN PUZZLE – IIran and the invention … Continue reading
When Jaswant took Indian politics to foreign shores
As a former resident of the glass house called diplomacy, Mr. Singh should have thought twice before throwing stones. 16 September 2005The Hindu When Jaswant took Indian politics to foreign … Continue reading
Why India’s poor need an employment guarantee…Transcript of an interview to ABC TV
ABC TV Asia-Pacific interviewed a colleague and I on India’s radical new Employment Guarantee Act for an episode of one of their regular programmes, The Editors. Siddharth Varadarajan: I think … Continue reading
It’s time for boldness on the Siachen issue
The India-Pakistan peace process will get the credibility and longevity it needs if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf find a way to bring their soldiers down from … Continue reading
Take me to the sea
Of all the sins visited upon the people of Palestine by Israel, and there are many, the one I find truly unforgivable is the fact that Palestinians who lived a … Continue reading
The final levee has given way…
As if the official ineptitude of the Bush administration in the aftermath of Katrina and the callousness of the Bush family were not enough to digest, a U.S. Federal appeals … Continue reading
Hurriyat and the Government: Dialogue in search of common ground
5 September 2005The Hindu Zero tolerance towards human rights violations and terrorist violence is the most important CBM that the Government and the Hurriyat must agree upon.See text of statement … Continue reading
Photo Journal: With Manmohan Singh in Kabul
I was in Kabul for a day, as part of the ’embedded’ media accompanying Manmohan Singh on an official visit, the first by an Indian Prime Minister since 1976. Here … Continue reading
Siddharth Varadarajan 