In discussions of Indo-US relations, one point generally tends to get ignored, in our case because we are not sufficiently sensitive to consideration of power and in theirs because the shrewder among them do not wish to spell out such considerations. The point is that there were three potential successors … Read More
Any discussion of America’s South Asia policy must of necessity begin with Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan in December, 1979. For it is open to question whether even the right wing and avowedly anti-Soviet Reagan administration would otherwise have decided to rearm Pakistan in disregard of India’s protests. We in … Read More
AMERICANS have expected a change in India’s foreign policy approach and therefore an improvement in Indo-US relations every time there has been a change of Prime Minister in this country. They entertained such hopes when Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded Mr. Nehru in 1964, when Mrs. Gandhi succeeded Mr. Shastri … Read More
In any discussion of the future prospect of Indo-US relations, we should take note of a new element that has entered the picture. Which is that there now exists in the United States a popular awareness of India the like of which has seldom been witnessed before. A variety of … Read More
