Indrani Bagchi
01 July 2010, 08:44 PM IST
During the BRIC summit in Brasilia earlier this year, Dai Bingguo, state councilor, pulled NSA Shivshankar Menon aside to say China wanted to hold a separate dialogue with India on Afghanistan.
It set off a “think” within the Indian leadership about...
Indrani Bagchi
14 March 2010, 09:14 PM IST
Apologies for being away for so long. But what brought me back was revelation of nothing less than a tectonic shift in India’s Pakistan policy. It appears we have finally cracked the code on how to completely cripple Pakistan.
According to this ...
Indrani Bagchi
01 November 2009, 01:04 AM IST
India has taken its growing concerns of trade imbalances to China’s doorstep. In regular circumstances, this would have passed unnoticed, buried among other business news. But in the India-China context, trade is a strategic asset, as important as the boundary...
Indrani Bagchi
19 August 2009, 07:58 PM IST
How much will the US give out to keep Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari at his job? Zardari is hoping some big ticket military equipment might do the trick. This will keep the army happy and supportive and his opponents at bay.
India has alerted the US...
Indrani Bagchi
22 October 2009, 07:40 PM IST
Lets not underestimate the significance of the Jundullah attack on the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards on October 18. The audacious attack killed 42 people, including senior commanders from the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Nour-Ali Shoushtari and...
Indrani Bagchi
02 August 2009, 02:42 PM IST
Nirupama Rao takes over as foreign secretary at a very interesting time in the life of the MEA.
In a way, it must be a sense of déjà vu. In 2001, Rao took over the very important job of the joint secretary (XP) / spokesperson bang in the middle of the...
Indrani Bagchi
07 August 2009, 08:06 PM IST
The killing of Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud by a US drone is the first piece of good news that Pakistan can celebrate, certainly since its been near impossible to capture or kill any high-value terrorist. Mehsud was the biggest obstacle to...
Indrani Bagchi is The Times of India's diplomatic editor. She calls this blog a wide canvas through which she looks at the world and how India responds to it.
The views expressed in Globespotting are the author´s own.
