ARTICLES BOOK REVIEWS
Underwater Treasure Hunt Reality Check for Asian Titans
The Financial Express, September 3rd 2010 Asia Times, August 21st 2010
   
Occupation Politics Stymie Afghanistan Inquest of a Defeat
Asia Times, August 31st 2010 Asia Times, July 3rd 2010
   
A Time for Unrest The System's Challengers
The Financial Express, August 30th 2010 Asia Times, July 26th 2009
   
Mosque in Manhattan India's Quest for Autonomy
The Financial Express, August 20th 2010 Asia Times, July 11th 2009
   
Climate of Inaction The Dragon's Shadow
The Financial Express, August 13th 2010 Asia Times, May 23rd 2009
   
Closed Books in China Ungainly Friendship
Asia Times, August 10th 2010 Asia Times, April 25th 2009
   
Sour BlackBerries The Strongmen's Benefactors
The Financial Express, August 5th 2010 Asia Times, January 24th 2009
   
Why Was Indian Civil Society Mute?  Graveyard of Indian Idealism
The Tribune, August 2nd 2010 Asia Times, October 25th 2008
   
Go Forth and Multiply? Chronicle of Errors
The Financial Express, July 29th 2010 Asia Times, August 9th 2008
   
China Turns On Demand Power Fundamentalism with Nuances
Asia Times, July 24th 2010 Asia Times, July 19th 2008
   
Placebo Reform? Aetiology of Violence
The Financial Express, July 21st 2010 South Bulletin, July 16th 2008
   
Siren Song from China Middle Kingdom Deciphered
The Financial Express, July 16th 2010 Asia Times, July 12th 2008
   
Oops, I Tweeted Again Asia's Awesome Threesome
Asia Times, July 13th 2010 Asia Times, June 14th 2008
   
Spy Story Reloaded Asia Pushes, West Resists
The Financial Express, July 9th 2010 Asia Times, April 19th 2008
   
China Unification by Integration The Flawed Golden Goose
Asia Times, July 3rd 2010 Asia Times, March 29th 2008
   
India Scores Bio-Piracy Victory One Mainland, Two Systems
Asia Times, June 29th 2010 Asia Times, February 2nd 2008
   
Coordination Blues Black Turbans Rebound
The Financial Express, June 25th 2010 Asia Times, January 26th 2008
   
Oil Slick Without End The Great Survivor
The Financial Express, June 18th 2010 Asia Times, December 15th 2007
   
Byzantine Bureaucracy Muslim Democracy: An Oxymoron?
The Financial Express, June 10th 2010 Asia Times, November 22nd 2007
   
Rebalancing China's Economy India's Defining Decade
The Financial Express, June 4th 2010 World Press Review, October 31st 2007
   
Diplomatic Activism Embattled Frontier
The Tribune, June 1st 2010 Asia Times, October 13th 2007
   
Angry Koreas, Nervous World Lodestar of Liberty
The Financial Express, May 28th 2010 Asia Times, September 1st 2007
   
Diplomacy Falls on Deaf Ears India's Silent Warriors
Asia Times, May 28th 2010 Asia Times, August 18th 2007
   
More than a Quaint Relic Asian Drama
The Financial Express, May 21st 2010 Asia Times, August 11th 2007
   
Argumentative Chinese Step Forward India's Holy Grail
Asia Times, May 18th 2010 Asia Times, July 14th 2007
   
India in a Globalised World The Adaptive Power
Geopolitics, May 2010 Asia Times, June 16th 2007
   
Trans-Atlantic Rescue The Longest Jihad
The Financial Express, May 13th 2010 Asia Times, May 5th 2007
   
A Pressing Matter Close, but Not Too Close
The Financial Express, May 7th 2010 Asia Times, April 6th 2007
   
Knives Sink into Goldman A Law Unto Itself
The Financial Express, April 29th 2010 Asia Times, January 26th 2007
   
C is Big in Bric Operation Bungle Iraq
The Financial Express, April 23rd 2010 Asia Times, January 6th 2007
   
UK Faces an Uncertain Tide Salesman of doom
The Financial Express, April 16th 2010 Asia Times, December 2nd 2006
   
Sleepless in Bangkok Worm in the Sunni Apple
The Financial Express, April 9th 2010 Asia Times, October 28th 2006 
   
Moscow Takes a Hit Epitaph to Unipolarity
The Financial Express, April 1st 2010 Asia Times, October 14th 2006
   
Politics of Extinction L'etat, C'est Moi
The Financial Express, March 26th 2010 World Press Review, October 4th 2006
   
Chinese Chutzpah The State Versus Society in Iran
The Financial Express, March 19th 2010 Asia Times, September 23rd 2006
   
Automobiles, Fruits and Sunglasses Deadly Double Game
The Financial Express, March 12th 2010 Asia Times, August 26th 2006
   
What India should do in Afghanistan The Quiet Revolution
The Financial Express, March 3rd 2010 Asia Times, June 17th 2006
   
Goldman Sachs Garage-Sold Greece Legend of Arabia
The Financial Express, February 25th 2010 Asia Times, June 10th 2006
   
India and Iran in the Obama Era A Systems Solution to the Middle East
The Globalist, February 22nd 2010 Asia Times, April 8th 2006
   
Aiding Soft Power The Fanatic's Mindset
The Financial Express, February 17th 2010 Asia Times, April 1st 2006
   
Just Disband the Obsolete G-7 The Disposable People
The Financial Express, February 10th 2010 Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, March 2006
   
BJP Turns a Corner in Mumbai New Playground of Jihad
The Financial Express, February 3rd 2010 World Press Review, February 20th 2006
   
Guidebook of the Nation East Asia's Black Sheep
The Financial Express, January 26th 2010 Asia Times, February 18th 2006
   
Iranian Elephant in the Iraqi Room Rebuilding Pangs
Asia Times, January 23rd 2010 Asia Times, February 4th 2006
   
A Bold Gauntlet The Globalisation of Terror
The Financial Express, January 20th 2010 Asia Times, January 14th 2006
   
Iceland, Frozen For Reasons of State
The Financial Express, January 12th 2010 Asia Times, November 5th 2005
   
Free Trading Asia Might versus right
The Financial Express, January 6th 2010 Asia Times, October 15th 2005
   
Basics Matter In the Heart of a Volcano
The Financial Express, December 31st 2009 Asia Times, October 1st 2005
   
Banana Politics Timeless Wisdom, Heedless World
The Financial Express, December 25th 2009 Asia Times, September 10th 2005
   
UN's Afghan Mission Takes a Hit Conflict Kaleidoscope
Asia Times, December 19th 2009 Asia Times, August 20th 2005
   
The wall Around Wall Street Diehard Legionnaires
The Financial Express, December 15th 2009 Asia Times, July 30th 2005
   
India Caught in a Terror Tangle Astral Politics
Asia Times, December 11th 2009 Current Science, July 25th 2005
   
War and Peace on the Greens God's Madmen
The Financial Express, December 10th 2009 Asia Times, July 16th 2005
   
Bhopal, Chernobyl, Lop Nor Passage to Stephania
The Financial Express, December 3rd 2009 Asia Times, July 23rd 2005
   
How Governments Scored on Swine Flu Spymaster's Pandora's Box
The Financial Express, November 27th 2009 Asia Times, June 18th 2005
   
No Leader, No Deal Dauntless Journalism
The Financial Express, November 19th 2009 Asia Times, May 28th 2005
   
Chicken, Steel and Tyre Politics Himalayan Dilemma
The Financial Express, November 13th 2009 Asia Times, April 30th 2005
   
Today's India and Yesterday's Indira The Road to Amity
The Financial Express, November 3rd 2009 Asia Times, April 8th 2005
   
Bellicose in Baghdad More Than Just a Game
The Financial Express, October 27th 2009 Asia Times, March 4th 2005
   
How to Hedge against the Rajaratnams The Soul of a City
The Financial Express, October 20th 2009 Asia Times, February 19th 2005
   
Peace of a Puzzle Dialogue for Development
The Financial Express, October 13th 2009 Asia Times, January 22nd 2005
   
Blame it on Chicago Crusade for Monoculture
The Financial Express, October 6th 2009 Asia Times, December 25th 2004
   
India and China Profess Brotherhood Two Villages and an Elephant
Asia Times, October 2nd 2009 Asia Times, December 16th 2004
   
What's left Now for Global Left? Egressing Iraq: Why and How
The Financial Express, September 29th 2009 Bharat Times, November 1st 2004
   
Everybody Loves a Good Fête Real American Fizz
The Financial Express, September 23rd 2009 Asia Times, November 11th 2004
   
9/15: The War is not Over A Dream Gone Sour
The Financial Express, September 15th 2009 Bharat Times, February 1st 2004
   
Netanyahu Plays a Russian Rope Trick First Nation Tragedies
Asia Times, September 15th 2009 Asia Times, October 23rd 2004
   
Geoeconomics and a Libyan Bomber Demilitarise or Perish
The Financial Express, September 11th 2009 Asia Times, September 3rd 2004
   
Wilted Lotus, Can it Bloom Again? Future Shock
The Financial Express, August 31st 2009 Asia Times, August 6th 2004
   
More Banana Republic The Rise of India’s ‘IT Paradise’
The Financial Express, August 25th 2009 Asia Times, July 30th 2004
   
Wary India Frisks North Korean Freighter The Inscrutable Indians
Asia Times, August 21st 2009 Asia Times, June 12th 2004
   
Jamie is a Good Boy, but Rest of the Class? The Kashmir Conundrum
The Financial Express, August 18th 2009 Asia Times, May 22nd 2004
   
The Barricade Brigade Tomorrow Never Dies
The Financial Express, August 13th 2009 Asia Times, May 6th 2004
   
Swiss Bank Account Holder? Shame WTO Fault Lines
The Financial Express, August 7th 2009 Asia Times, March 31st 2004
   
Iran, US do a 'War on Terror' Somersault Honey, He Trashed the Bushes!
Asia Times, August 1st 2009  Asia Times, February 28th 2004
   
Xinjiang Riots Confound Islamists Pakistan's Beirut
Asia Times, July 29th 2009 Asia Times, January 17th 2004
   
India's Climate Change Impasse Nehru's Overlooked Legacy
Opinion Asia, July 23rd 2009 Asia Times, January 10th 2004
   
Learn to Mix Oil & People The Hare and the Tortoise
The Financial Express, July 22nd 2009 Asia Times, December 6th 2003
   
Australia Lands in Chinese Soup Calculated Hospitality
Asia Times, July 14th 2009 Asia Times, November 1st 2003
   
Death Becomes Us Enigma Decryption
The Financial Express, July 9th 2009 Asia Times, October 4th 2003
   
Inside China's Unquiet West Democracy and Mobocracy
Asia Times, July 8th 2009 Asia Times, September 13th 2003
   
A UN Crapshoot in Pakistan Mammon's Cesspool
Asia Times, July 4th 2009 Asia Times, September 5th 2003
   
Maya Does as Mao Did An Intellectual Among Journalists
The Financial Express, July 2nd 2009 Asian Age, August 19th 2003
   
China Creates an Internet Albatross Indian Democracy Imperilled
Asia Times, July 1st 2009 Asia Times, August 16th 2003
   
One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: The United States Institute of Peace Dissecting an Assassination
International Journal of Peace Studies, June 2009 Asia Times, July 26th 2003
   
Who Will be CPM's Khruschev? Exposition of Revolutionary Terror
The Financial Express, June 25th 2009  Asia Times, July 4th 2003
   
Sino-Indian Rivalry and Asian Stability Minority Rule, Majority Hate
The Globalist, June 22nd 2009 Asia Times, June 7th 2003
   
Pro-Incumbency, Iranian Style Wilsonian Idealism Reconsidered
The Financial Express, June 16th 2009 Asia Times, May 3rd 2003
   
Money Can't Bridge this Gulf The Curse of the Poppy
The Financial Express, June 12th 2009 Asia Times, April 25th 2003
   
Circling the Tiananmen Square Afghanistan: The Lost Homeland
The Financial Express, June 4th 2009 Asia Times, April 11th 2003
   
Dumping Waste, Courting Trouble Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus
The Financial Express, May 27th 2009 Asia Times, March 28th 2003
Prabhakaran's Ghost Threatens to Haunt Sri Lanka  
Opinion Asia, May 20th 2009 Pakistan: The World's Next Failed State?
(Also in Gulf News)  Asia Times, February 28th 2003
   
Sticking to the Centre A Soulful Journey
The Financial Express, May 19th 2009 Asia Times, February 14th 2003
   
Unequal Equals: Angola and China A Korean Exit Strategy for the US
World Affairs, May 2009 Asia Times, February 1st 2003
   
A Difficult 100 Days Tibet. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The Financial Express, May 2nd 2009 World Tibet Network News, January 17th 2003
   
Mental Slaves Master Strategist or Master Crook?
The Statesman, April 23rd 2009 Asia Times, January 11th 2003
   
A Short Step in the March to Justice September 11 and the American Journo
Asia Times, April 22nd 2009 Asia Times, December 14th 2002
   
A Tech-Savvy Rebellion in Thailand Reclaiming Burma
Asia Times, April 17th 2009 Asia Times, November 30th 2002
   
The War on Women in Afghanistan Globalising Poverty, IMF Style
Opinion Asia, April 13th 2009 Asia Times, November 16th 2002
(Also in The Japan Times)  
  'Mrs.R' and the Human Rights Scripture
Dollar and More Asia Times, November 1st 2002
The Financial Express, April 7th 2009  
  Beyond Administering Misery
The Collateral Crisis Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, October 2002
The Financial Express, March 27th 2009  
  Anatomy of Islamism
Divided We Will Fall Asia Times, October 26th 2002
The Financial Express, March 13th 2009  
  Osama's Universe
Gandhi's Glasses and a Rabbit's Head Asia Times, October 12th 2002
Asia Times, March 6th 2009  
  The Colossus of Cricket
Power Play Behind Bangladesh's Mutiny Asia Times, October 5th 2002
Asia Times, March 3rd 2009  
  Friend of India. Friend of the World
'Conspiracies' Cloud India's Terror Probe Asia Times, September 28th 2002
Asia Times, February 26th 2009  
  India & Pakistan: The Ever-Ever Antagonism
Transforming India-Pakistan Relations Asia Times, September 13th 2002
The Globalist, February 24th 2009  
  A History of Helping the Displaced
Home Safe Home Asia Times, September 6th 2002
The Financial Express, February 21st 2009  
  Kashmiri Hindus in the 21st Century
Obama Sparks US Image Makeover Kashmir Herald, June 2002
Asia Times, February 11th 2009  
  Struggles of the Invisible Refugees
Protect Capitalism, Not Trade Asia Times, August 17th 2002
The Financial Express, February 7th 2009 (Also in Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, September 2002)
   
Crisis and the Average Jane Sculptors of Silicon India
The Financial Express, January 31st 2009 Asia Times, June 20th 2002
   
Under Obama: Uncle Sam, Honest Broker? Kashmir: The Unforgotten Tale
Opinion Asia, January 25th 2009 Kashmir Herald, July 2002
   
China's Horrible 2008 Remembering an African Martyrdom
The Globalist, January 20th 2009 Asia Times, July 3rd 2002
   
Strong-Arm Tactics Religion as War
The Financial Express, January 13th 2009 The Asian Age, July 11th 2002
   
A High Cost for More Feet on the Ground Between Life and Afterlife
Asia Times, January 8th 2009 Asia Times, July 19th 2002
   
Through the Looking Glass Perfidious Albion and the First Kashmir War
The Financial Express, January 5th 2009 Mainstream Weekly, October 1 2002
   
When Odd States Normalise The Technology of Genocide
The Financial Express, December 24th 2008 Asia Times, May 15th 2002
(Also in New Europe)  
  Science for Humanity or Profit?
The Global Scientific Race Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 27th 2002
The International Indian, December 2008 (Also in the March Edition of Current Science)
   
A Peek into Iran's Nuclear Pandora's Box Dragon Versus Peacock
Asia Times, December 17th 2008 Asia Times, April 27th, 2002
   
A Novel Way to Tackle Pakistan The Reason for War was War
Asia Times, December 16th 2008 Sulekha.com, February 2nd 2002
   
Gaza Blockade: Slivers in the Holy Land India as a World Power
Opinion Asia, December 11th 2008 Asia Times, March 30th 2002
(Also in Gulf News)  
  Skewed Portrait of India's Iron Lady
India: Great Power or Not? Asia Times, March 23rd 2002
The Globalist, December 9th 2008  
  Reminiscences of the Silent Chanakya
For a Community-Led Role in Counter-Terrorism Himal South Asia Magazine, March 2002
The Hindu, November 30th 2008  
  The Missile Man Remembers
Indian Navy Comes of Age South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, December 2001
The Hindu, November 21st 2008  
  Imagined Communities in a Shaky Subcontinent
Politics of Polarisation Himal South Asia Magazine, September 2001
The Hindu, November 12th 2008  
  Indian and Pakistani Nukespeak
Nationalism from Afar Contemporary South Asia Journal, July 2001
The International Indian, October 2008  
  Pakistan. Quo Vadis?
The Rise (and Fall?) of Petro-States Kashmir Herald, April 2001
The Hindu, October 30th 2008  
  The Tyranny of Borders
On the Trail in America: Waiting for Obama Sulekha.com, April 2001
Opinion Asia, October 16th 2008  
  Comic Farce of Modern India
Tinsel Politics Return in India Sulekha.com, March 2001
Asia Times, September 19th 2008  
  Dr.Strangelove of Iraq
Righting Historical Wrongs: The Global Politics of Apologies Infomanage International, September 2000
The Globalist, September 15th 2008  
  All the Prime Ministers 
Civilians Caught in Sri Lanka's 'Clean War' Indiaserver.com, August 2000
Asia Times, September 11th 2008  
   
Cooperation with Discord  
The Hindu, September 3rd 2008  
   
The Believer's Travails  
The International Indian, August 2008  
   
Leviathan's Return  
Asia Times, August 28th 2008  
   
Georgia: The Super Cop Vanishes  
The Hindu, August 19th 2008  
   
The United States, Pakistan and the Law of Unintended Consequences  
The Globalist, August 18th 2008  
   
New International Regional Pacts: Vision or Vainglory?  
Opinion Asia, August 13th 2008  
(Also in South China Morning Post)  
   
A Leap of Faith for Saudi King  
Asia Times, July 22nd 2008  
   
A Victory of Principles  
The Hindu, July 16th 2008  
   
Islamism Shakes Kashmir  
Asia Times, July 8th 2008  
   
Civilian N-Deal: A Victim of Oversell  
The Financial World, June 25th 2008  
   
India's Central Asian Struggle  
International Indian, June 2008  
   
Middle East Serves US Some Humble Pie  
Asia Times, June 20th 2008  
   
Monarchies in Asia: Crowns Die Hard  
Opinion Asia, June 11th 2008  
   
UN Security Council Seat: China Outsmarts India  
World Press Review, May 30th 2008  
   
An Appeaser in the White House?  
Asia Times, May 21st 2008  
   
Bangladeshi Immigrants Stoke Terror in India  
Asia Sentinel, May 15th 2008  
   
The Problem with Dictators and Disasters  
Asia Times, May 13th 2008  
   
Undiplomatically Yours  
Asia Times, May 9th 2008  
   
Just Blame it on China and India  
Asia Times, May 6th 2008  
   
China's Cybernoops Scour the World  
Asia Sentinel, May 2nd 2008  
   
India, China Hold G8 Options  
Asia Times, April 29th 2008  
   
Blue Collar Immigrant Blues  
The International Indian, April 2008  
   
Muqtada's Biggest Battle Already Won  
Asia Times, April 23rd 2008  
   
Mixed Muslim Message in War on Terror  
Asia Times, April 12th 2008  
   
Old Friends, New World  
The Statesman, April 8th 2008  
(Also in the Times of India)  
   
The Age of the Immigrant Spy  
Asia Times, April 3rd 2008  
   
Terrorism Remains Pakistan's Chief Export  
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, March 31st 2008  
(Also in the Middle East Times)  
   
India's Tata Grabs an Icon  
Asia Sentinel, March 26th 2008  
   
India's Restrictions Hamper Tibetan Movement  
Asia Sentinel, March 18th 2008  
   
A World of Selfistans?  
Foreign Policy in Focus, March 13th 2008  
   
Should India be a Satellite-Killer?  
Free Press Journal, March 5th 2008  
   
Israel and India: Iran's Needless Hullabaloo  
Free Press Journal, February 19th 2008  
   
India's Self-Confident Avatar  
The International Indian, February 2008  
   
The Ever-Changing Faces of Terror  
Asia Times, February 8th 2008  
   
The Tyrant Who Escaped Justice  
The Asian Age, January 31st 2008  
   
Benazir's Assassination: A Tragedy Foretold  
Indo-Asian News Service, December 28th 2007  
   
The China Threat : How Real is It?  
The International Indian, November 2007  
   
Jagjit Singh: A Musical Demiurge  
Asian Lite, October 7th 2007  
   
Is India Aligning in a New Cold War?  
World Press Review, September 30th 2007  
   
India Finds Unity in Terror  
Asia Times, August 28th 2007  
   
Taliban: Pakistan's Incubus, World's Scourge  
Free Press Journal, August 1st 2007  
   
India's Soft Power: Lessons from Nehru  
Indo-Asian News Service, March 12th 2007  
   
Shiites and Democracy  
Mideast Monitor, June 2007  
   
International Organisations in Mindanao: To Protect or Not?   
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, February 2007  
   
ULFA Mayhem: The Burma Factor   
Indo-Asian News Service, January 12th 2007  
   
Is there a 'Burns Effect' on Pakistan?  
Indo-Asian News Service, October 17th 2006  
   
Angola: Empire of the Humanitarians  
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, July 2006  
   
Wanted: A New Indira Doctrine  
Indo-Asian News Service, June 4th 2006  
   
Why All is Quiet on the American Home Front  
Asia Times, May 24th 2006  
   
The Rang De Basanti Generation  
Bharat Times, May 2006