Ashok Malik – Author, NDTV.com

Opinion: Smriti Irani Didn't Help Her Cause. Textiles Could Be Better Fit

Ashok Malik | Wednesday July 06, 2016

While we can speculate - and perhaps correctly guess - the reasons for some ministers losing certain portfolios, the full story will never be known.

Opinion: How Indians Voted On Brexit - And How 'Leave' Will Impact Them

Ashok Malik | Friday June 24, 2016

In this interconnected world, where a potential break-up of the European Union has been enough to have stock market indices tumble in Mumbai, the experience of India and Indians and Britons of Indian origin is indicative of the multitude of thoughts and urges and impulses that went into the Brexit drama.

Opinion: Modi's US Speech Was Letter Perfect, Ticked Off Every Box

Ashok Malik | Thursday June 09, 2016

Without taking recourse to the old wailing sheet and cribbing to everyone about Islamabad, Modi has devised a mechanism to shape the debate to India's advantage.

Opinion: What BJP Got Right In Assam - Including Under-Playing Modi

Ashok Malik | Wednesday May 18, 2016

As Assam has established, it is now the BJPs intellectual property.

Opinion: Bring Back The Kohinoor? You Can't Be Serious.

Ashok Malik | Wednesday April 20, 2016

How strong is an Indian case for getting back the Kohinoor diamond from Britain? It depends on whether one considers this in terms of law, politics, history or morality.

Opinion: Modi's Gamble By Allowing Pak Team Into Pathankot

Ashok Malik | Wednesday March 30, 2016

What is the Modi government attempting? Is this latest manoeuvre part of an up-and-down Pakistan policy going back to its earliest days, in the summer of 2014? Is it consistent with a more recent approach, visible at least since the first week of December 2015? In either case, is it managing to communicate its thinking to a domestic constituency? All of these are impo...

Opinion: Government Failed Totally In Defusing JNU Crisis

Ashok Malik | Wednesday February 17, 2016

Let us consider the episode, then, not in terms of a chronological narrative but as a function of the role of and impact on the five principal sets of stakeholders.

Opinion: Ram Madhav and The Akhand Bharat Controversy

Ashok Malik | Monday December 28, 2015

What is this all about and, frankly, despite Madhav's personal beliefs, how is it politically relevant at all in these times?

Opinion: Modi Places Big Bets for India in Silicon Valley

Ashok Malik | Monday September 28, 2015

It is more important to ask why Modi travelled to California and what he hopes to gain from there. This was not just another trip to the far coast of America, or another meeting with another community of NRIs-PIOs. There was thought and substance that went into the planning of the visit, and both Modi and his hosts were taking some bets.

Opinion: What Mohan Bhagwat Really Said on Reservation

Ashok Malik | Tuesday September 22, 2015

Having read the Organiser interview with Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the RSS, I am left scratching my head. Going by media reports, one expected an interview devoted to the issue of reservations and making strong recommendations. What one found instead was a long conversation on the relevance of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and his philosophy of "Integral Humanism".

Opinion: Why Pakistani Army is Needling Modi

Ashok Malik | Friday August 21, 2015

Essentially, the bet is the Indian side does not have the space to repeat what it did when it cancelled the Foreign Secretaries' talks in 2014, on a similar issue of Pakistani officials meeting the Hurriyat.

Opinion: How to Read Modi's Independence Day Speech

Ashok Malik | Saturday August 15, 2015

A year down the line, the sky is not as clear. It cannot be; inevitably, the clouds will appear. In that sense, this was a more "normal" Prime Ministerial speech. One hesitates to use the word "normal" because frankly one is judging Modi by his own oratorical standards. Both his speeches remain superior to those of not just his immediate predecessor but many Prime Min...

Opinion: Charged Debate Over Yakub Memon Overlooked This

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