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India-Pakistan: Iron in the Soul
The Neighbour from Hell Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The decision to call off the scheduled Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan...
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Dec 13, 20226 min read
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In Memoriam: John F Kennedy
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The historical record sheds positive light on JFK It is fifty years since the assassination of President...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Dec 12, 202216 min read
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India-Pakistan Summit – yesterday once more
The neighbour from Hell Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The run-up to the summit between the Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers had seen a...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Dec 12, 20226 min read
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Afghanistan Post-2014: Stability and Regional Dynamics
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The Current Western Assessment The western analysis on Afghanistan is that their forces had gone into the...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Dec 12, 202213 min read
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India-Pakistan Summit – yesterday once more
October 2013 Dealing with the neighbour from Hell The run-up to the summit between the Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers had seen a...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Sep 17, 20226 min read
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QUAD AND THE INDO-PACIFIC
The People’s Republic acts; the rest issue statements In order to rectify the above state of affairs, it is becoming imperative for the...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Aug 11, 202221 min read
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US Vice President in India
Vice President Biden was in India for four days in July, visiting Delhi and Mumbai. The visit got less than the usual level of media...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Jul 11, 20228 min read
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Some Common Myths about India-Pakistan Relations
The Neighbour from Hell “Phir ek baar kiya, to dekhna” is not effective policy As tensions rise between India and Pakistan, the usual...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Jul 3, 20229 min read
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Afghanistan 2014: the Pashtun Factor
There is an effort among some western commentaries – taken up and amplified by the Pakistanis - to try and project the situation in...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Jun 30, 202212 min read
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Foreign Policy under the new Chinese Leaders
The new Chinese leaders have been active in foreign affairs almost immediately after taking over their new offices in March this year....
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
May 26, 20229 min read
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The Economic and Political Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region
PART I: Economic Developments Centre of gravity shifts to China from Japan in the 1990s The period since the end of the Cold War has seen...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
May 21, 202220 min read
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President Putin in India
The thirteenth Indo-Russian Summit was a fleeting affair, with President Putin spending less than twenty-four hours in Delhi. It came as...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
May 18, 20226 min read
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The Prime Minister Must Not Visit Pakistan
The neighbour from hell To the insistent clamour that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must visit Pakistan in the near future, this is a...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
May 16, 20228 min read
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Indian Nationhood Through the Ages
Most of the British and European nationals who came to India in the 18th and 19th centuries were simply dismayed at its vast geographical...
Professor Makkhan Lal
May 6, 202216 min read
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The Emperor’s Frayed Clothes
One important chapter of the Anna movement has ended; a new one is set to begin. Time, perhaps, to pause and take stock of what went...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Apr 13, 20224 min read
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Dealing with the Neighbour from Hell
The recent round of talks between the Indian and Pakistan bureaucratic establishments has come to another uneasy pause with the Foreign...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Apr 12, 20225 min read
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TIBET IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND PRACTICE
“Since Tibet is not the same as China, it should ultimately be the wishes of the people of Tibet that should prevail and not any legal or...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Apr 7, 202217 min read
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Geostrategic Factors In Indo-US Relations
An examination of the history of the Indo-American engagement since Indian Independence shows that there were three major occasions when...
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Apr 5, 202217 min read
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