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

The Asian Age, May 13th 2012

Reconfiguring the Middle East

Asia Times, December 22nd 2010

Humanist Manifesto

Asia Times, September 25th 2010

Reality Check for Asian Titans

Asia Times, August 21st 2010

Inquest of a Defeat

Asia Times, July 3rd 2010

The System’s Challengers

Asia Times, July 26th 2009

India’s Quest for Autonomy

Asia Times, July 11th 2009

The Dragon’s Shadow

Asia Times, May 23rd 2009

Ungainly Friendship

Asia Times, April 25th 2009

The Strongmen’s Benefactors

Asia Times, January 24th 2009

Graveyard of Indian Idealism

Asia Times, October 25th 2008

Chronicle of Errors

Asia Times, August 9th 2008

Fundamentalism with Nuances

Asia Times, July 19th 2008

Aetiology of Violence

South Bulletin, July 16th 2008

Middle Kingdom Deciphered

Asia Times, July 12th 2008

Asia’s Awesome Threesome

Asia Times, June 14th 2008

Asia Pushes, West Resists

Asia Times, April 19th 2008

The Flawed Golden Goose

Asia Times, March 29th 2008

One Mainland, Two Systems

Asia Times, February 2nd 2008

Black Turbans Rebound

Asia Times, January 26th 2008

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

Asia Times, October 13th 2007

Lodestar of Liberty

Asia Times, September 1st 2007

India’s Silent Warriors

Asia Times, August 18th 2007

Asian Drama

Asia Times, August 11th 2007

India’s Holy Grail

Asia Times, July 14th 2007

The Adaptive Power

Asia Times, June 16th 2007

The Longest Jihad

Asia Times, May 5th 2007

Close, but Not Too Close

Asia Times, April 6th 2007

A Law Unto Itself

Asia Times, January 26th 2007

Operation Bungle Iraq

Asia Times, January 6th 2007

Salesman of doom

Asia Times, December 2nd 2006

Worm in the Sunni Apple

Asia Times, October 28th 2006

Epitaph to Unipolarity

Asia Times, October 14th 2006

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

Asia Times, August 26th 2006

The Quiet Revolution

Asia Times, June 17th 2006

Legend of Arabia

Asia Times, June 10th 2006

A Systems Solution to the Middle East

Asia Times, April 8th 2006

The Fanatic’s Mindset

Asia Times, April 1st 2006

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

Asia Times, February 4th 2006

The Globalisation of Terror

Asia Times, January 14th 2006

For Reasons of State

Asia Times, November 5th 2005

Might versus right

Asia Times, October 15th 2005

In the Heart of a Volcano

Asia Times, October 1st 2005

Timeless Wisdom, Heedless World

Asia Times, September 10th 2005

Conflict Kaleidoscope

Asia Times, August 20th 2005

Diehard Legionnaires

Asia Times, July 30th 2005

Astral Politics

Current Science, July 25th 2005

God’s Madmen

Asia Times, July 16th 2005

Passage to Stephania

Asia Times, July 23rd 2005

Spymaster’s Pandora’s Box

Asia Times, June 18th 2005

Dauntless Journalism

Asia Times, May 28th 2005

Himalayan Dilemma

Asia Times, April 30th 2005

The Road to Amity

Asia Times, April 8th 2005

More Than Just a Game

Asia Times, March 4th 2005

The Soul of a City

Asia Times, February 19th 2005

Dialogue for Development

Asia Times, January 22nd 2005

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

Asia Times, October 23rd 2004

Demilitarise or Perish

Asia Times, September 3rd 2004

Future Shock

Asia Times, August 6th 2004

The Rise of India’s ‘IT Paradise’

Asia Times, July 30th 2004

The Inscrutable Indians

Asia Times, June 12th 2004

The Kashmir Conundrum

Asia Times, May 22nd 2004

Tomorrow Never Dies

Asia Times, May 6th 2004

WTO Fault Lines

Asia Times, March 31st 2004

Honey, He Trashed the Bushes!

Asia Times, February 28th 2004

Pakistan’s Beirut

Asia Times, January 17th 2004

Nehru’s Overlooked Legacy

Asia Times, January 10th 2004

The Hare and the Tortoise

Asia Times, December 6th 2003

Calculated Hospitality

Asia Times, November 1st 2003

Enigma Decryption

Asia Times, October 4th 2003

Democracy and Mobocracy

Asia Times, September 13th 2003

Mammon’s Cesspool

Asia Times, September 5th 2003

An Intellectual Among Journalists

Asian Age, August 19th 2003

Indian Democracy Imperilled

Asia Times, August 16th 2003

Dissecting an Assassination

Asia Times, July 26th 2003

Exposition of Revolutionary Terror

Asia Times, July 4th 2003

Minority Rule, Majority Hate

Asia Times, June 7th 2003

Wilsonian Idealism Reconsidered

Asia Times, May 3rd 2003

The Curse of the Poppy

Asia Times, April 25th 2003

Afghanistan: The Lost Homeland

Asia Times, April 11th 2003

Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus

Asia Times, March 28th 2003

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

Asia Times, February 1st 2003

Tibet. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

World Tibet Network News, January 17th 2003

Master Strategist or Master Crook?

Asia Times, January 11th 2003

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

Asia Times, November 1st 2002

Beyond Administering Misery

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, October 2002

Anatomy of Islamism

Asia Times, October 26th 2002

Osama’s Universe

Asia Times, October 12th 2002

The Colossus of Cricket

Asia Times, October 5th 2002

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

Kashmir Herald, June 2002

Struggles of the Invisible Refugees

Asia Times, August 17th 2002

(Also in Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, September 2002)

Sculptors of Silicon India

Asia Times, June 20th 2002

Kashmir: The Unforgotten Tale

Kashmir Herald, July 2002

Remembering an African Martyrdom

Asia Times, July 3rd 2002

Religion as War

The Asian Age, July 11th 2002

Between Life and Afterlife

Asia Times, July 19th 2002

Perfidious Albion and the First Kashmir War

Mainstream Weekly, October 1 2002

The Technology of Genocide

Asia Times, May 15th 2002

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

Asia Times, April 27th, 2002

The Reason for War was War

Sulekha.com, February 2nd 2002

India as a World Power

Asia Times, March 30th 2002

Skewed Portrait of India’s Iron Lady

Asia Times, March 23rd 2002

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?

Kashmir Herald, April 2001

The Tyranny of Borders

Sulekha.com, April 2001

Comic Farce of Modern India

Sulekha.com, March 2001

Dr.Strangelove of Iraq

Infomanage International, September 2000

All the Prime Ministers

Indiaserver.com, August 2000