A reality check for David Cameron's India quest

Bhaskar Menon explains why for India it cannot be business as usual with the British. British Prime Minister David Cameron began his three-day visit to India by invoking the "huge ties" between the......

India needs a relationship of equals with the US

India should strive to establish itself as a pole in a multi-polar world consisting of a G-3 or G-4 -- including itself and the European Union -- instead of being a satellite to a sinking America,......

The defence framework pact with US

In the early 1980s, the British peace movement, then at its peak, invented a delightfully imaginative phrase to highlight the skewed and unequal character of the Anglo-American defence......

Pax Indica and a multipolar world

The images of an America struggling to assert its will in Iraq have startled many observers. Here is a country devastated by a decade-long embargo; its paramount ruler has been hunted down in a......

The G20 and 'Chermany'

The announcement over the week-end by China to introduce greater exchange rate flexibility is unambiguously good news, provided, of course, that intent is followed up with some actual upward......

Why India must consider fiscal prudence

Should next month's Budget, the first for the new government, start the process of fiscal consolidation or should this consolidation be deferred for some time? One perspective on this question is......

PHOTOS: Five memorable Manchester derbies

IMAGE: Pep Guardiola (right) greets Jose Mourinho during a match. Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images The arrival of old adversaries Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola into the respective......

IPL auction: The players, their price

As many as 350 leading cricketers from India and abroad will go under the auctioneer's hammer in Bangalore on January 8 and 9 when Indian Premier League franchises bidding for their services in the......