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There is cautious optimism about ending the Ukraine War – Part 2
Peace comes in driblets in Ukraine The famous line of Irish poet WB Yeats from the poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree comes to mind: ‘And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow…” Yeats was expressing his longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree, an…
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There is cautious optimism about ending the Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin received the US Special Representative Stephen Witkoff, Constantine Palace, St. Petersburg, October 21, 2026 The needle may not have moved on ending the Ukraine war but the joint phone call on October 27 by Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and…
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The middling predicament of middle powers
My opinion piece in the New Indian Express on the predicament of the so-called ‘middle powers’ in the emerging world order — all dressed up and nowhere to go. The middling predicament of middle powers M K Bhadrakumar The New Indian Express, October 22, 2022 One must be…
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Trump deputes Vance to reach out to Modi
Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, White House, Washington, November 18, 2025. The telephone call from the US Vice-President JD Vance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 8 came as a…
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Trump returns to peacemaking in Ukraine but war must mature first
President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with Russian Defence Ministry leadership, Kremlin, Moscow, August 5, 2026 The Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the political equivalent of Oroshnik hypersonic missile Wednesday to scatter the recent pot shots by hawkish factions…
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Graham sanctions bill has bite. Trump will use it to terrorise India
The Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s characterisation of the reports suggesting the US could impose a 100 percent tariff on countries such as India that import Russian oil as speculative cannot be taken as a statement of fact. “We don’t comment on speculation,” he…
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US conjoins the wars in Eurasia, West Asia
The Caspian Sea forms a strategically vital direct supply route between Russia and Iran (Source: BBC) On Friday, even as the US President Donald Trump was announcing the end of the latest round of the conflict with Iran, Pentagon unobtrusively extended the war theatre to the…
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US-Saudi nuclear pantomime is with eye on Iran
The excitement over the US-Saudi nuclear deal has proved to be short-lived. Apparently, the US President Donald Trump himself poured cold water into it by adding a caveat within 24 hours on Thursday that in order for the deal to be advanced, Saudi Arabia must first join the…
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Kerala should prepare for AI education
The Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan’s choice of the New Indian Express editor Santwana Bhattacharya for his first major media interview after assuming office 50 days ago comes as no surprise. Both are quintessential intellectuals and humanists at the core with a rare ability…
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India’s Persian Gulf diplomacy is churlish
Delhi’s attempt to play the Shia card to moderate the Iranian disquiet over our ‘forever honeymoon’ with the Israel-UAE-Bahrain axis failed to impress Tehran. It was a clumsy attempt but was, arguably, the best card Delhi held potentially. The best alternative would have been to…