Mahesh Sachdev
Mahesh Sachdev is a retired Indian Ambassador. He currently heads Eco-Diplomacy and Strategies, a Delhi-based consultancy
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Opinion | Trump's Gaza Plan: Ushering "Peace for Our Time" In West Asia?
The long-elusive ceasefire is only the opening overture of a fiendishly complicated serial act. Seasoned observers of the region advise taking it with a ladleful of salt.
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Opinion | India-EU FTA: Light At The End Of A Long Tunnel?
The current bilateral and global centripetal forces seem to be pulling India and the EU together. However, the two sides have been here many times during the past two decades.
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Opinion | Trump Shanghais The World To Tianjin
The world would be watching to note whether the Tianjin Summit would emerge as the first collective sign of resistance to the American onslaught seeking to reset the balance.
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Opinion | Tariff War On India: Trump's Words And Our Scriptures
One does not expect Trump to be knowledgeable about the ancient Indian negotiating strategy, but his approach towards India seems to have a near overlap with Sam, Dam, Dand, Bhed.
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Opinion | Now, The More Difficult Act: Rebuilding The Middle East
Physical reconstruction has to go hand in hand with socio-political institution-building. Inevitably, the legacy of the past hostilities has created bitterness and mutual suspicions, complicating the recovery.
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Opinion | It Is The Best Of Times, It Is The Worst Of Times, For Pakistan
While Pakistan has always lived by its wits, this time, it faces the unpredictable, transactionalist Donald Trump, a dealmaker with a penchant for sudden surprises (ask Zelensky).
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Opinion | Trump's Durbar: Back To 'Pax Americana' In The Gulf?
For its sheer optics, Trump's Gulf tour was quite over the top, with his three hydrocarbon-rich hosts going overboard in offering him mega-deals.
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Opinion | Trump & The Ayatollah: It's a Pity Both Can't Lose
Who can predict the outcome of a tryst between a self-styled "transactional" deal-maker and those who coined the word "Bazaar" and raised negotiations to the art of 'Mutazayedat', or overbidding?
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Opinion | Sudan Is Staring At A Second Partition, Thanks To Two Warlords
In a testimony to the UN Security Council last week, the UNICEF chief disclosed that the ongoing conflict has evolved into the world's most severe humanitarian emergency, affecting 30 million individuals, two-thirds of Sudan's population
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Opinion | Ukraine Summits In US & London: Putting Paste Back Into Tube
Six weeks into Trump 2.0, the opening overture of the White House's high-adrenaline campaign to reconfigure the eight-decade global as well as domestic architecture has generated more heat than light.
