BOOK REVIEWS
Making Hong Kong China
International Affairs, March 2021
Towards an Indian Realism
The Asian Age, October 18th 2020
Decoding India’s China Threat
The Asian Age, February 25th 2018
The Group of Twenty
India Quarterly, September 2013
Arms and the Merchants of Death
The Asian Age, February 3rd 2013
Of Suspicions, Rivalries and Double Crossings
The Asian Age, September 30th 2012
India’s Foreign Dreams Must Take Flight
The Asian Age, August 5th 2012
The All-American Way is not India’s Way
Reconfiguring the Middle East
Asia Times, December 22nd 2010
Humanist Manifesto
Asia Times, September 25th 2010
Reality Check for Asian Titans
Inquest of a Defeat
The System’s Challengers
India’s Quest for Autonomy
The Dragon’s Shadow
Ungainly Friendship
The Strongmen’s Benefactors
Graveyard of Indian Idealism
Chronicle of Errors
Fundamentalism with Nuances
Aetiology of Violence
South Bulletin, July 16th 2008
Middle Kingdom Deciphered
Asia’s Awesome Threesome
Asia Pushes, West Resists
The Flawed Golden Goose
One Mainland, Two Systems
Black Turbans Rebound
The Great Survivor
Asia Times, December 15th 2007
Muslim Democracy: An Oxymoron?
Asia Times, November 22nd 2007
India’s Defining Decade
World Press Review, October 31st 2007
Embattled Frontier
Lodestar of Liberty
Asia Times, September 1st 2007
India’s Silent Warriors
Asian Drama
India’s Holy Grail
The Adaptive Power
The Longest Jihad
Close, but Not Too Close
A Law Unto Itself
Operation Bungle Iraq
Salesman of doom
Worm in the Sunni Apple
Epitaph to Unipolarity
L’etat, C’est Moi
World Press Review, October 4th 2006
The State Versus Society in Iran
Asia Times, September 23rd 2006
Deadly Double Game
The Quiet Revolution
Legend of Arabia
A Systems Solution to the Middle East
The Fanatic’s Mindset
The Disposable People
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, March 2006
New Playground of Jihad
World Press Review, February 20th 2006
East Asia’s Black Sheep
Asia Times, February 18th 2006
Rebuilding Pangs
The Globalisation of Terror
For Reasons of State
Might versus right
In the Heart of a Volcano
Timeless Wisdom, Heedless World
Asia Times, September 10th 2005
Conflict Kaleidoscope
Diehard Legionnaires
Astral Politics
Current Science, July 25th 2005
God’s Madmen
Passage to Stephania
Spymaster’s Pandora’s Box
Dauntless Journalism
Himalayan Dilemma
The Road to Amity
More Than Just a Game
The Soul of a City
Asia Times, February 19th 2005
Dialogue for Development
Crusade for Monoculture
Asia Times, December 25th 2004
Two Villages and an Elephant
Asia Times, December 16th 2004
Egressing Iraq: Why and How
Bharat Times, November 1st 2004
Real American Fizz
Asia Times, November 11th 2004
A Dream Gone Sour
Bharat Times, February 1st 2004
First Nation Tragedies
Demilitarise or Perish
Asia Times, September 3rd 2004
Future Shock
The Rise of India’s ‘IT Paradise’
The Inscrutable Indians
The Kashmir Conundrum
Tomorrow Never Dies
WTO Fault Lines
Honey, He Trashed the Bushes!
Asia Times, February 28th 2004
Pakistan’s Beirut
Nehru’s Overlooked Legacy
The Hare and the Tortoise
Calculated Hospitality
Enigma Decryption
Democracy and Mobocracy
Asia Times, September 13th 2003
Mammon’s Cesspool
Asia Times, September 5th 2003
An Intellectual Among Journalists
Indian Democracy Imperilled
Dissecting an Assassination
Exposition of Revolutionary Terror
Minority Rule, Majority Hate
Wilsonian Idealism Reconsidered
The Curse of the Poppy
Afghanistan: The Lost Homeland
Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus
Pakistan: The World’s Next Failed State?
Asia Times, February 28th 2003
A Soulful Journey
Asia Times, February 14th 2003
A Korean Exit Strategy for the US
Tibet. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
World Tibet Network News, January 17th 2003
Master Strategist or Master Crook?
September 11 and the American Journo
Asia Times, December 14th 2002
Reclaiming Burma
Asia Times, November 30th 2002
Globalising Poverty, IMF Style
Asia Times, November 16th 2002
‘Mrs.R’ and the Human Rights Scripture
Beyond Administering Misery
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, October 2002
Anatomy of Islamism
Osama’s Universe
The Colossus of Cricket
Friend of India. Friend of the World
Asia Times, September 28th 2002
India & Pakistan: The Ever-Ever Antagonism
Asia Times, September 13th 2002
A History of Helping the Displaced
Asia Times, September 6th 2002
Kashmiri Hindus in the 21st Century
Struggles of the Invisible Refugees
(Also in Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, September 2002)
Sculptors of Silicon India
Kashmir: The Unforgotten Tale
Remembering an African Martyrdom
Religion as War
Between Life and Afterlife
Perfidious Albion and the First Kashmir War
Mainstream Weekly, October 1 2002
The Technology of Genocide
Science for Humanity or Profit?
Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 27th 2002
(Also in the March Edition of Current Science)
Dragon Versus Peacock
The Reason for War was War
Sulekha.com, February 2nd 2002
India as a World Power
Skewed Portrait of India’s Iron Lady
Reminiscences of the Silent Chanakya
Himal South Asia Magazine, March 2002
The Missile Man Remembers
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, December 2001
Imagined Communities in a Shaky Subcontinent
Himal South Asia Magazine, September 2001
Indian and Pakistani Nukespeak
Contemporary South Asia Journal, July 2001
Pakistan. Quo Vadis?
The Tyranny of Borders
Comic Farce of Modern India
Dr.Strangelove of Iraq
Infomanage International, September 2000
All the Prime Ministers