The group BIMSTEC could stem the region’s creeping militarization by instituting a Bay of Bengal Zone of Peace that seeks to limit any bellicose behaviour of extra-regional powers.
Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Not only Nepal we have lost Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
India perception has always been the hegemon, taken the role of the elder brother and has patronised these smaller countries while they perception of themselves has been that of fiercely sovereign countries, sensitive to being smaller, wary of being dictated to.
But India has not been BIG enough to defer to th sensitivities of our smaller neighbours. Our bureaucrats who have always had a Colonial mindset when dealing with our own citizens, have Lorded it over and expect due deference and respect in relations with our neighbours often interfering into their internal affairs as a matter of right.
Well, as the say our chickens have come home to roost.
In which line or paragraph in the article is Pakistan called a friend? Its called a neighbour and in another instance, the phrase losing a neighbour is referred to. Read the article again. After taking your safrron spectacles off that is.
The article neither does add any new information on the issue, nor has any perspective. Is it really written seriously by Jyoti Malhrotra?
The comment by Rajesh doesn’t add any alternate analysis or perspective to counter the author’s view. It is just two lines of gibberish. Is the comment written seriously by Rajesh?
PM I K Gujral was a wise man. Have sometimes wondered if his enlightened Gujral Doctrine had factored in the rise of China, accordingly recommended a conscious effort being made by India to be of use and help to its smaller neighbours, not just an overbearing hegemon. It is evident that our neighbourhood policy has run into a brick wall.
Politicians taking charge may not always improve things. In foreign policy, where important decisions play out over decades, the professional knowledge and expertise of the diplomats should invariably be relied upon. Also the institutional memory of the Foreign Office. Our neighbourhood is looking unsettled, unsupportive.
Not only Nepal we have lost Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
India perception has always been the hegemon, taken the role of the elder brother and has patronised these smaller countries while they perception of themselves has been that of fiercely sovereign countries, sensitive to being smaller, wary of being dictated to.
But India has not been BIG enough to defer to th sensitivities of our smaller neighbours. Our bureaucrats who have always had a Colonial mindset when dealing with our own citizens, have Lorded it over and expect due deference and respect in relations with our neighbours often interfering into their internal affairs as a matter of right.
Well, as the say our chickens have come home to roost.
Writer just called Pakistan Indias friend????..No need to read other part.Typical imaginary banter.
In which line or paragraph in the article is Pakistan called a friend? Its called a neighbour and in another instance, the phrase losing a neighbour is referred to. Read the article again. After taking your safrron spectacles off that is.
The article neither does add any new information on the issue, nor has any perspective. Is it really written seriously by Jyoti Malhrotra?
The comment by Rajesh doesn’t add any alternate analysis or perspective to counter the author’s view. It is just two lines of gibberish. Is the comment written seriously by Rajesh?
Pakistan was never a friend
PM I K Gujral was a wise man. Have sometimes wondered if his enlightened Gujral Doctrine had factored in the rise of China, accordingly recommended a conscious effort being made by India to be of use and help to its smaller neighbours, not just an overbearing hegemon. It is evident that our neighbourhood policy has run into a brick wall.
Politicians taking charge may not always improve things. In foreign policy, where important decisions play out over decades, the professional knowledge and expertise of the diplomats should invariably be relied upon. Also the institutional memory of the Foreign Office. Our neighbourhood is looking unsettled, unsupportive.