ARTICLES BOOK REVIEWS
Webbed to the Cause Reconfiguring the Middle East
Hindustan Times, February 2nd 2012 Asia Times, December 22nd 2010
   
Samba Lessons for India Humanist Manifesto
The Economic Times, January 27th 2012 Asia Times, September 25th 2010
   
Iranian Oil Poses Asian Dilemma Reality Check for Asian Titans
Asia Times, January 25th 2012 Asia Times, August 21st 2010
   
Less Shock, More Awe Inquest of a Defeat
Hindustan Times, January 13th 2012 Asia Times, July 3rd 2010
   
The Rise of Al Qaeda's Franchises The System's Challengers
Asia Times, January 6th 2012 Asia Times, July 26th 2009
   
Lion Slayers of the Arab World India's Quest for Autonomy
The Times of India, January 1st 2012 Asia Times, July 11th 2009
   
11 Global Trends that Defined 2011 The Dragon's Shadow
The Economic Times, December 25th 2011 Asia Times, May 23rd 2009
   
Putin Face People's Power Ungainly Friendship
The Times of India, December 15th 2011 Asia Times, April 25th 2009
   
No more Mr. Fall Guy The Strongmen's Benefactors
Hindustan Times, December 14th 2011 Asia Times, January 24th 2009
   
From Oz with Love Graveyard of Indian Idealism
The Economic Times, December 10th 2011 Asia Times, October 25th 2008
   
Dead Heat Election Raises Taiwan Stakes Chronicle of Errors
Asia Times, December 3rd 2011 Asia Times, August 9th 2008
   
In on the Ground Floor Fundamentalism with Nuances
Hindustan Times, November 25th 2011 Asia Times, July 19th 2008
   
Tiger in the Dragon's Yard Aetiology of Violence
Asia Times, November 18th 2011 South Bulletin, July 16th 2008
   
MF Global and the Global Funk Middle Kingdom Deciphered
The Economic Times, November 10th 2011 Asia Times, July 12th 2008
   
Back 'to each his own' Asia's Awesome Threesome
Hindustan Times, November 2nd 2011 Asia Times, June 14th 2008
   
After Gaddafi, Whither Libya? Asia Pushes, West Resists
The Economic Times, October 22nd 2011 Asia Times, April 19th 2008
   
India Holds Gandhi Card for Tahrir Square The Flawed Golden Goose
Asia Times, October 19th 2011 Asia Times, March 29th 2008
   
The Soul Man One Mainland, Two Systems
Hindustan Times, October 13th 2011 Asia Times, February 2nd 2008
   
Striking a Financial Balance Black Turbans Rebound
The Economic Times, October 6th 2011 Asia Times, January 26th 2008
   
No BRICS Rescue for the Eurozone The Great Survivor
Asia Sentinel, September 26th 2011 Asia Times, December 15th 2007
   
BRICS and the Limits of Interdependence Muslim Democracy: An Oxymoron?
The Financial Express, September 23rd 2011 Asia Times, November 22nd 2007
   
Kowtow Diplomacy: How Today's America Resembles Imperial China India's Defining Decade
The Globalist, September 12th 2011 World Press Review, October 31st 2007
   
For a 'Zero Problems' South Asia Embattled Frontier
The Economic Times, September 6th 2011 Asia Times, October 13th 2007
   
Southeast Asia: Navigating Between China and America Lodestar of Liberty
The Globalist, September 5th 2011 Asia Times, September 1st 2007
   
Apple and the Art of Business India's Silent Warriors
Asia Times, August 31st 2011 Asia Times, August 18th 2007
   
Class Muddles India's Anti-Graft Push Asian Drama
Asia Times, August 24th 2011 Asia Times, August 11th 2007
   
Dragon Tries to Slay US Military India's Holy Grail
Asia Times, August 16th 2011 Asia Times, July 14th 2007
   
When Leaders go AWOL The Adaptive Power
The Economic Times, August 7th 2011 Asia Times, June 16th 2007
   
How Murdoch Worsened Obama's Ordeal The Longest Jihad
The Financial Express, August 2nd 2011 Asia Times, May 5th 2007
   
US Opens Regional Trade Gambit in Asia Close, but Not Too Close
Asia Times, July 30th 2011 Asia Times, April 6th 2007
   
Mumbai Terror's Pakistani Trail A Law Unto Itself
The Globalist, July 18th 2011 Asia Times, January 26th 2007
   
India's Bystander Diplomacy Operation Bungle Iraq
The Economic Times, July 15th 2011 Asia Times, January 6th 2007
   
Is Israeli Smart Power for Real? Salesman of doom
Asia Times, July 13th 2011 Asia Times, December 2nd 2006
   
The Party Begins at 90 Worm in the Sunni Apple
The Tribune, July 1st 2011 Asia Times, October 28th 2006 
   
European Harakiri in Libya Epitaph to Unipolarity
Asia Times, June 28th 2011 Asia Times, October 14th 2006
   
Banking Sans Scruples L'etat, C'est Moi
The Economic Times, June 24th 2011 World Press Review, October 4th 2006
   
India Inches toward Shanghai The State Versus Society in Iran
Asia Times, June 20th 2011 Asia Times, September 23rd 2006
   
Minority Cloud Looms over Arab Summer Deadly Double Game
Asia Times, June 13th 2011 Asia Times, August 26th 2006
   
New Star Steers Tibetan Transition The Quiet Revolution
Asia Times, June 2nd 2011 Asia Times, June 17th 2006
   
Safari with the People Legend of Arabia
The Economic Times, May 24th 2011 Asia Times, June 10th 2006
   
Talking Without the Elephant A Systems Solution to the Middle East
Asia Times, May 16th 2011 Asia Times, April 8th 2006
   
Land of Japain The Fanatic's Mindset
The Financial Express, May 11th 2011 Asia Times, April 1st 2006
   
The Mastermind's Afterlife The Disposable People
The Economic Times, May 6th 2011 Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, March 2006
   
India's 'Power' Attributes New Playground of Jihad
Handbook of India's International Relations, May 2011 World Press Review, February 20th 2006
   
India and the United Nations East Asia's Black Sheep
Handbook of India's International Relations, May 2011 Asia Times, February 18th 2006
   
G-20 with Teeth? Rebuilding Pangs
The Financial Express, April 27th 2011 Asia Times, February 4th 2006
   
Undemocratic Bailouts The Globalisation of Terror
The Financial Express, April 13th 2011 Asia Times, January 14th 2006
   
Cricket Win Stirs Indian Renaissance For Reasons of State
Asia Times, April 5th 2011 Asia Times, November 5th 2005
   
Guessing Game Libya Might versus right
The Financial Express, March 29th 2011 Asia Times, October 15th 2005
   
War Stalks Revolution in Middle East In the Heart of a Volcano
Asia Times, March 22nd 2011 Asia Times, October 1st 2005
   
Georgia has Key to Russia's WTO Seat Timeless Wisdom, Heedless World
The Financial Express, March 16th 2011 Asia Times, September 10th 2005
   
Jasmine in a China Shop Conflict Kaleidoscope
The Financial Express, March 3rd 2011 Asia Times, August 20th 2005
   
The Spies who got it Wrong Diehard Legionnaires
Asia Times, February 19th 2011 Asia Times, July 30th 2005
   
Scramble for Mozambique Coal Astral Politics
The Financial Express, February 15th 2011 Current Science, July 25th 2005
   
The Dictator's Ticking Clock God's Madmen
The Financial Express, February 1st 2011 Asia Times, July 16th 2005
   
Long Live BRIC, Welcome MIST Passage to Stephania
Asia Times, January 26th 2011 Asia Times, July 23rd 2005
   
Colour me China, Says Europe Spymaster's Pandora's Box
The Financial Express, January 18th 2011 Asia Times, June 18th 2005
   
China Makes Russian Calculations Dauntless Journalism
The Financial Express, January 4th 2011 Asia Times, May 28th 2005
   
Rare Earth Shock Himalayan Dilemma
The Financial Express, December 28th 2010 Asia Times, April 30th 2005
   
Europe Gets Waylaid The Road to Amity
The Financial Express, December 9th 2010 Asia Times, April 8th 2005
   
The Man Who Knows Too Much More Than Just a Game
Asia Times, December 3rd 2010 Asia Times, March 4th 2005
   
Mother of all Preferential Trade Zones The Soul of a City
The Financial Express, November 26th 2010 Asia Times, February 19th 2005
   
Endgame for Afghanistan Dialogue for Development
Yale Global, November 17th 2010 Asia Times, January 22nd 2005
   
A Friend in Need… Crusade for Monoculture
The Financial Express, November 12th 2010 Asia Times, December 25th 2004
   
Centrifugal Forces Shape Taiwan's Democracy Two Villages and an Elephant
Asia Times, November 6th 2010 Asia Times, December 16th 2004
   
Beijing Bullies, Mumbai Entices Egressing Iraq: Why and How
The Financial Express, October 28th 2010 Bharat Times, November 1st 2004
   
Brazil Ups the Ante Real American Fizz
The Financial Express, October 14th 2010 Asia Times, November 11th 2004
   
Nobel Committee Faces Down the Dragon A Dream Gone Sour
Asia Times, October 6th 2010 Bharat Times, February 1st 2004
   
Dragonomics Rolls On First Nation Tragedies
The Financial Express, October 1st 2010 Asia Times, October 23rd 2004
   
A Test for Obama's Middle East Neutrality Demilitarise or Perish
Asia Times, September 24th 2010 Asia Times, September 3rd 2004
   
A Clean Energy Meltdown Future Shock
The Financial Express, September 17th 2010 Asia Times, August 6th 2004
   
Board Games The Rise of India’s ‘IT Paradise’
The Financial Express, September 8th 2010 Asia Times, July 30th 2004
   
Underwater Treasure Hunt The Inscrutable Indians
The Financial Express, September 3rd 2010 Asia Times, June 12th 2004
   
Occupation Politics Stymie Afghanistan The Kashmir Conundrum
Asia Times, August 31st 2010 Asia Times, May 22nd 2004
   
A Time for Unrest Tomorrow Never Dies
The Financial Express, August 30th 2010 Asia Times, May 6th 2004
   
Mosque in Manhattan WTO Fault Lines
The Financial Express, August 20th 2010 Asia Times, March 31st 2004
   
Climate of Inaction Honey, He Trashed the Bushes!
The Financial Express, August 13th 2010 Asia Times, February 28th 2004
   
Closed Books in China Pakistan's Beirut
Asia Times, August 10th 2010 Asia Times, January 17th 2004
   
Sour BlackBerries Nehru's Overlooked Legacy
The Financial Express, August 5th 2010 Asia Times, January 10th 2004
   
Why Was Indian Civil Society Mute?  The Hare and the Tortoise
The Tribune, August 2nd 2010 Asia Times, December 6th 2003
   
Go Forth and Multiply? Calculated Hospitality
The Financial Express, July 29th 2010 Asia Times, November 1st 2003
   
China Turns On Demand Power Enigma Decryption
Asia Times, July 24th 2010 Asia Times, October 4th 2003
   
Placebo Reform? Democracy and Mobocracy
The Financial Express, July 21st 2010 Asia Times, September 13th 2003
   
Siren Song from China Mammon's Cesspool
The Financial Express, July 16th 2010 Asia Times, September 5th 2003
   
Oops, I Tweeted Again An Intellectual Among Journalists
Asia Times, July 13th 2010 Asian Age, August 19th 2003
   
Spy Story Reloaded Indian Democracy Imperilled
The Financial Express, July 9th 2010 Asia Times, August 16th 2003
   
China Unification by Integration Dissecting an Assassination
Asia Times, July 3rd 2010 Asia Times, July 26th 2003
   
India Scores Bio-Piracy Victory Exposition of Revolutionary Terror
Asia Times, June 29th 2010 Asia Times, July 4th 2003
   
Coordination Blues Minority Rule, Majority Hate
The Financial Express, June 25th 2010 Asia Times, June 7th 2003
   
Oil Slick Without End Wilsonian Idealism Reconsidered
The Financial Express, June 18th 2010 Asia Times, May 3rd 2003
   
Byzantine Bureaucracy The Curse of the Poppy
The Financial Express, June 10th 2010 Asia Times, April 25th 2003
   
Rebalancing China's Economy Afghanistan: The Lost Homeland
The Financial Express, June 4th 2010 Asia Times, April 11th 2003
   
Diplomatic Activism Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus
The Tribune, June 1st 2010 Asia Times, March 28th 2003
   
Angry Koreas, Nervous World Pakistan: The World's Next Failed State?
The Financial Express, May 28th 2010 Asia Times, February 28th 2003
   
Diplomacy Falls on Deaf Ears A Soulful Journey
Asia Times, May 28th 2010 Asia Times, February 14th 2003
   
More than a Quaint Relic A Korean Exit Strategy for the US
The Financial Express, May 21st 2010 Asia Times, February 1st 2003
   
Argumentative Chinese Step Forward Tibet. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Asia Times, May 18th 2010 World Tibet Network News, January 17th 2003
   
India in a Globalised World Master Strategist or Master Crook?
Geopolitics, May 2010 Asia Times, January 11th 2003
   
Trans-Atlantic Rescue September 11 and the American Journo
The Financial Express, May 13th 2010 Asia Times, December 14th 2002
   
A Pressing Matter Reclaiming Burma
The Financial Express, May 7th 2010 Asia Times, November 30th 2002
   
Knives Sink into Goldman Globalising Poverty, IMF Style
The Financial Express, April 29th 2010 Asia Times, November 16th 2002
   
C is Big in Bric 'Mrs.R' and the Human Rights Scripture
The Financial Express, April 23rd 2010 Asia Times, November 1st 2002
   
UK Faces an Uncertain Tide Beyond Administering Misery
The Financial Express, April 16th 2010 Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, October 2002
   
Sleepless in Bangkok Anatomy of Islamism
The Financial Express, April 9th 2010 Asia Times, October 26th 2002
   
Moscow Takes a Hit Osama's Universe
The Financial Express, April 1st 2010 Asia Times, October 12th 2002
   
Politics of Extinction The Colossus of Cricket
The Financial Express, March 26th 2010 Asia Times, October 5th 2002
   
Chinese Chutzpah Friend of India. Friend of the World
The Financial Express, March 19th 2010 Asia Times, September 28th 2002
   
Automobiles, Fruits and Sunglasses India & Pakistan: The Ever-Ever Antagonism
The Financial Express, March 12th 2010 Asia Times, September 13th 2002
   
What India should do in Afghanistan A History of Helping the Displaced
The Financial Express, March 3rd 2010 Asia Times, September 6th 2002
   
Goldman Sachs Garage-Sold Greece Kashmiri Hindus in the 21st Century
The Financial Express, February 25th 2010 Kashmir Herald, June 2002
   
India and Iran in the Obama Era Struggles of the Invisible Refugees
The Globalist, February 22nd 2010 Asia Times, August 17th 2002
  (Also in Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, September 2002)
Aiding Soft Power  
The Financial Express, February 17th 2010 Sculptors of Silicon India
  Asia Times, June 20th 2002
Just Disband the Obsolete G-7  
The Financial Express, February 10th 2010 Kashmir: The Unforgotten Tale
  Kashmir Herald, July 2002
BJP Turns a Corner in Mumbai  
The Financial Express, February 3rd 2010 Remembering an African Martyrdom
  Asia Times, July 3rd 2002
Guidebook of the Nation  
The Financial Express, January 26th 2010 Religion as War
  The Asian Age, July 11th 2002
Iranian Elephant in the Iraqi Room  
Asia Times, January 23rd 2010 Between Life and Afterlife
  Asia Times, July 19th 2002
A Bold Gauntlet  
The Financial Express, January 20th 2010 Perfidious Albion and the First Kashmir War
  Mainstream Weekly, October 1 2002
Iceland, Frozen  
The Financial Express, January 12th 2010 The Technology of Genocide
  Asia Times, May 15th 2002
Free Trading Asia  
The Financial Express, January 6th 2010 Science for Humanity or Profit?
  Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 27th 2002
Basics Matter (Also in the March Edition of Current Science)
The Financial Express, December 31st 2009  
  Dragon Versus Peacock
Banana Politics Asia Times, April 27th, 2002
The Financial Express, December 25th 2009  
  The Reason for War was War
UN's Afghan Mission Takes a Hit Sulekha.com, February 2nd 2002
Asia Times, December 19th 2009  
  India as a World Power
The wall Around Wall Street Asia Times, March 30th 2002
The Financial Express, December 15th 2009  
  Skewed Portrait of India's Iron Lady
India Caught in a Terror Tangle Asia Times, March 23rd 2002
Asia Times, December 11th 2009  
  Reminiscences of the Silent Chanakya
War and Peace on the Greens Himal South Asia Magazine, March 2002
The Financial Express, December 10th 2009  
  The Missile Man Remembers
Bhopal, Chernobyl, Lop Nor South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, December 2001
The Financial Express, December 3rd 2009  
  Imagined Communities in a Shaky Subcontinent
How Governments Scored on Swine Flu Himal South Asia Magazine, September 2001
The Financial Express, November 27th 2009  
  Indian and Pakistani Nukespeak
No Leader, No Deal Contemporary South Asia Journal, July 2001
The Financial Express, November 19th 2009  
  Pakistan. Quo Vadis?
Chicken, Steel and Tyre Politics Kashmir Herald, April 2001
The Financial Express, November 13th 2009  
  The Tyranny of Borders
Today's India and Yesterday's Indira Sulekha.com, April 2001
The Financial Express, November 3rd 2009  
  Comic Farce of Modern India
Bellicose in Baghdad Sulekha.com, March 2001
The Financial Express, October 27th 2009  
  Dr.Strangelove of Iraq
How to Hedge against the Rajaratnams Infomanage International, September 2000
The Financial Express, October 20th 2009  
  All the Prime Ministers 
Peace of a Puzzle Indiaserver.com, August 2000
The Financial Express, October 13th 2009  
   
Blame it on Chicago  
The Financial Express, October 6th 2009  
   
India and China Profess Brotherhood  
Asia Times, October 2nd 2009  
   
What's left Now for Global Left?  
The Financial Express, September 29th 2009  
   
Everybody Loves a Good Fête  
The Financial Express, September 23rd 2009  
   
9/15: The War is not Over  
The Financial Express, September 15th 2009  
   
Netanyahu Plays a Russian Rope Trick  
Asia Times, September 15th 2009  
   
Geoeconomics and a Libyan Bomber  
The Financial Express, September 11th 2009  
   
Wilted Lotus, Can it Bloom Again?  
The Financial Express, August 31st 2009  
   
More Banana Republic  
The Financial Express, August 25th 2009  
   
Wary India Frisks North Korean Freighter  
Asia Times, August 21st 2009  
   
Jamie is a Good Boy, but Rest of the Class?  
The Financial Express, August 18th 2009  
   
The Barricade Brigade  
The Financial Express, August 13th 2009  
   
Swiss Bank Account Holder? Shame  
The Financial Express, August 7th 2009  
   
Iran, US do a 'War on Terror' Somersault  
Asia Times, August 1st 2009   
   
Xinjiang Riots Confound Islamists  
Asia Times, July 29th 2009  
   
India's Climate Change Impasse  
Opinion Asia, July 23rd 2009  
   
Learn to Mix Oil & People  
The Financial Express, July 22nd 2009  
   
Australia Lands in Chinese Soup  
Asia Times, July 14th 2009  
   
Death Becomes Us  
The Financial Express, July 9th 2009  
   
Inside China's Unquiet West  
Asia Times, July 8th 2009  
   
A UN Crapshoot in Pakistan  
Asia Times, July 4th 2009  
   
Maya Does as Mao Did  
The Financial Express, July 2nd 2009  
   
China Creates an Internet Albatross  
Asia Times, July 1st 2009  
   
One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: The United States Institute of Peace  
International Journal of Peace Studies, June 2009  
   
Who Will be CPM's Khruschev?  
The Financial Express, June 25th 2009   
   
Sino-Indian Rivalry and Asian Stability  
The Globalist, June 22nd 2009  
   
Pro-Incumbency, Iranian Style  
The Financial Express, June 16th 2009  
   
Money Can't Bridge this Gulf  
The Financial Express, June 12th 2009  
   
Circling the Tiananmen Square  
The Financial Express, June 4th 2009  
   
Dumping Waste, Courting Trouble  
The Financial Express, May 27th 2009  
Prabhakaran's Ghost Threatens to Haunt Sri Lanka  
Opinion Asia, May 20th 2009  
(Also in Gulf News)   
   
Sticking to the Centre  
The Financial Express, May 19th 2009  
   
Unequal Equals: Angola and China  
World Affairs, May 2009  
   
A Difficult 100 Days  
The Financial Express, May 2nd 2009  
   
Mental Slaves  
The Statesman, April 23rd 2009  
   
A Short Step in the March to Justice  
Asia Times, April 22nd 2009  
   
A Tech-Savvy Rebellion in Thailand  
Asia Times, April 17th 2009  
   
The War on Women in Afghanistan  
Opinion Asia, April 13th 2009  
(Also in The Japan Times)  
   
Dollar and More  
The Financial Express, April 7th 2009  
   
The Collateral Crisis  
The Financial Express, March 27th 2009  
   
Divided We Will Fall  
The Financial Express, March 13th 2009  
   
Gandhi's Glasses and a Rabbit's Head  
Asia Times, March 6th 2009  
   
Power Play Behind Bangladesh's Mutiny  
Asia Times, March 3rd 2009  
   
'Conspiracies' Cloud India's Terror Probe  
Asia Times, February 26th 2009  
   
Transforming India-Pakistan Relations  
The Globalist, February 24th 2009  
   
Home Safe Home  
The Financial Express, February 21st 2009  
   
Obama Sparks US Image Makeover