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Topic: Shivshankar Menon

Plot against Pannun shows incompetence. It’s unlike our intelligence agencies: Shivshankar Menon

At the Kerala Literature Festival, former NSA Shivshankar Menon thanked god for his retirement. But career diplomats like him never take their finger off the pulse.

Being tied to Russia is not the most preferred option for China, says ex-NSA Shivshankar Menon

Speaking at an event in Delhi Wednesday, Menon said by focusing on the war and Europe, the West risked losing the Global South which was feeling the ripples of the conflict.

What ambassador Pradeep Rawat can take away from India’s first China envoy KPS Menon’s stint

The early days of breaking the ice between a newly independent India and a civil war-plagued China weren’t a cakewalk at all.

Chinese Communist Party now derives legitimacy from ultra-nationalism, says Shivshankar Menon

Ex-foreign secy says domestic factors play a role in any country's foreign policy but this appears to be more pronounced for China, given its aim to reinstate its 'imagined past'.

Modi’s goal of making India Vishwaguru won’t transform lives of Indians: Shivshankar Menon

Avoiding war and attaining one’s goals is the highest form of strategy by any tradition — whether Kautilya, Sun Tzu or Machiavelli. India should follow this.

Covid-19 different from Tiananmen, China won’t be able to tide over crisis: Ex-NSA Menon

Former NSA Shivshankar Menon says impact of Covid will lead to “huge reputational loss” for China as well as other countries. He also cautions India against aligning with US or China. 

Coronavirus spread shows world is still globalised: Former NSA & top diplomat Menon

Shivshankar Menon said at the CPR Dialogues that the world might evolve into a ‘differently globalised’ one, and also discussed the India-US relationship.

Need to take an extra step & maintain new equilibrium with China: Ex-NSA Shivshankar Menon

A boundary is a useful issue to regulate the temperature of India-China relationship, but it’s a lever, said Menon.

Off The Cuff with Shivshankar Menon

This edition of 'Off The Cuff' saw Former NSA Shivshankar Menon in conversation with ThePrint Chairman & Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and Pranab Dhal Samanta, Editor,...

Don’t worry about Doklam. India-China ties have seen far worse: Shivshankar Menon

Doklam is not as big a crisis as it has been made out to be, said former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon ThePrint Reporter

On Camera

What to do when your paramour sends you a poem? It’s mostly game over after that

Whatever gives people the courage to send poems to their insignificant others is spreading like a viral fever. The big disruptor? ChatGPT.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.