Kanwal Sibal
Kanwal Sibal was Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia, and Deputy Chief Of Mission in Washington.
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Opinion | 10 Days After Bangladesh Polls, Lingering Questions About Pak, Hasina, US
No smooth sailing of bilateral relations can be expected. The effort would be to restore normalcy. The good days of India-Bangladesh ties under Sheikh Hasina are likely over.
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Opinion | US Trade Deal: Is This Trump's 'FOMO' After The India-EU Pact?
The India-EU free trade pact wrong-footed the US, turning on its head the very playbook Trump was using to browbeat America's trading partners.
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Opinion | Donald Trump: When 'Ego-Mania' Trumps Rationality
No US president after the Second World War has shaken up the global system as much as Trump has done in only a year of his presidency.
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Opinion | Putin In India: Why A Fuming Europe Must Accept Its Problems Aren't Of India's Making
The initiative of the three European envoys to write an article in an Indian daily maligning Putin and Russia just before the Russian president's visit served no real purpose. It was diplomatically unwarranted.
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Opinion | These Are India's Options Against Sheikh Hasina's Death Sentence
Bangladesh's domestic war crimes court - the International Crimes Tribunal - has sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death after a trial in absentia. This verdict raises many questions.
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Opinion | These, Really, Could Be Trump's Plans For Pakistan (And Munir)
Trump's reasons for his tilt towards Pakistan are unclear. Is it as simple as feeling piqued that he wasn't given credit by India for brokering the ceasefire with Pakistan, which he thought would make him eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Opinion | Message To India, Or Something Else? Why Trump Is Really Coddling Pakistan
Trump has reshuffled the political, security and economic cards in the subcontinent as a challenge to India's interests.
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Opinion | It's Not India That Should've Handled Trump Better, But The Other Way Round
Our ties with the US are the most important that we have, but how to handle them is not for us to do alone. All the provocations have come from Trump and the sycophants around him.
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Opinion | SCO, And Why Trump Must Know The World Doesn't Really Dance To His Tunes
Modi has already met Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in Kazan in 2024, following which some re-engagement with China has begun. But the fundamentals of our issues with China have not changed.
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Opinion | Trump's Hollow Claims: Here's Where India - And China - Really Buy Their Oil From
Navarro says India is importing more oil than it needs, forgetting that it is adding value by refining it and satisfying existing external demand, created, ironically, by the US and the EU imposing sanctions on Russia.
