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Nehru held the posts of both PM and MEA.In his first speech in Parliament Vajpayee spoke on foreign affairs, in Hindi.Nehru said foreign policy was usually discussed in English, but

1. "Nobody shows as much class solidarity as the rich," forget where I read it, but this keeps ringing in my ears as journalists write, "India mishandled the second wave".No,

When I speak of hope, I speak from a position of naivete.I'm not the relative by marriage who spent a year in Kashmir's most infamous detention centre because - at

1. Let's talk about the agricultural revolution needed in South Asia in light of climate change.There are five distinct impacts here: a higher frequency of floods, also of droughts, salinity

1. For five years I have been watching the climate story unfold in South Asia for @third_pole.It is a story quite often reduced to disasters, pollution, and hardship.Disasters and drama

1. When it comes to Chinese the Indian response is constrained by multiple factors, some of the government's making, some not.One major factor is pure military power.To take on China,

Nehru and his daughter riding across the mountains to Bhutan in 1958, to fundamentally reshape our diplomatic relations.Almost 70, a journey that took weeks, leading from the front. Dude looked

1. A few days ago I had a long, and somewhat voluble, discussion with a person that would be characterised as a "sarkari Mussalman": privileged family, education, role in government,

1. Cyclone Amphan is the latest disaster to hit the people of the Sundarbans - the world's largest mangrove forest shared by India and Bangladesh, but it is of interlinked

1. There's been a lot of superficial analysis on the sudden burst of social media criticism in Arab states against NRI Muslim-bashing.Much of this misses the point and is based

10. For years India has followed a policy of not being in any camp, but since 2014 this has been overtly mercenary.We are a country with no real allies, and

1. While it is always amusing to hear anti-liberals (left, right, whatever) attack liberals - often fairly marginal players in politics - it is worth asking why they will treat