The message from Brussels
By Vijay Darda | 28-03-2016 Is the world losing the war against terror? Will it be a new normal for people to live under the shadow of a terror attack? Will Europe have to remain suspicious about the migrant populations? Don’t we have any method to fight radicalism? These are just some of the […]
All of us are worried, Aamir
By Vijay Darda | 30-11-2015 Aamir Khan is an iconic Bollywood actor. He is also well-known as thinking actor, and the entire clutch of his movies is beyond the song and dance around the trees routine. Right from his debut film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) that got him the best male actor award […]
1965 war victory: Golden celebrations get back veterans
By Vijay Darda | 07-09-2015 The calculations of territorial gains or losses apart the 1965 Indo-Pak war was decisive event in the history of independent India. Pakistan had chosen a particularly vulnerable moment to launch an attack. There was the humiliation of the 1962 debacle against China, and the loss of the first Prime […]
Not a mature way
By Vijay Darda | 24-08-2015 Once the two prime ministers agreed at Ufa to further the dialogue process, then it was incumbent on the other members of the teams on both sides to ensure that the next steps, howsoever miniscule in size are taken to achieve the best results under the circumstances. We can […]
Privacy brooks no compromise
By Vijay Darda | 13-08-2015 Our attorney general Mukul Rohatgi has a flair for the dramatic and when even he stated the obvious in the Supreme Court that the right to privacy is not a fundamental right in the context of the Aadhar card, the common folks in the country were rather shocked and […]
From Bajrangi Bhaijaan to Geeta!
By Vijay Darda | 03-08-2015 In our public domain, we always perceive the image of Pakistan as an enemy. After all for the last 68 years we have been at loggerheads with each other. There have been four wars, and the two nuclear-armed countries aren’t really making any friendly moves towards each other. Recently, […]
Forging strategic global partnership
By Vijay Darda | 26-01-2015 When American President Barack Obama stands as the chief guest at the Rajpath this year with the Republic Day parade passing before him, the event will go beyond the symbolism of the world’s most powerful democracy acknowledging the largest democracy in the world. The firsts involved in this landmark […]
In 2015, Pakistan must change
By Vijay Darda | 05-01-2015 We have all stepped into a New Year. We have all exchanged good wishes with each other. The common theme is a fervent hope that the coming year would be substantially better than the one that has gone by. This quest for better times is not just in the […]
Nobel lessons for India-Pakistan
By Vijay Darda | 13-10-2014 It is well-known that the Nobel Peace Prize is among the most controversial of the awards conferred by this committee. Its selections have often invited criticism, and the most durable one being its consistent refusal to honour the greatest apostle of peace and non-violence Mahatma Gandhi. The facts associated […]
Indo-US ties need course correction
By Vijay Darda | 13-01-2014 Now that the dust has settled and the Indian Foreign Service officer Devyani Khobragade has come back from New York with her ‘head held high’ as her lawyer claimed, it is time for a cooler reflection for the wise heads that supposedly decide the course of relationship between the […]