Indian win in Jadhav case a diplomatic victory
By Vijay Darda | 22-05-2017 Pak-China friendship is dangerous for us; we should befriend America but not at the cost of our Russian friends I hail Prime Minister Narendra Modi, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and my friend and famous lawyer Advocate Harish Salve for the initial victory in Kulbhushan Jadhav case. I congratulate […]
The foreign policy disarray
By Vijay Darda | 19-04-2016 A lot of our energy is usually expended in deliberating over our troubles with Pakistan and China whenever attention is focused on foreign policy affairs. This is quite natural because bulk of our security and strategic challenges emerge from Islamabad and Beijing. The fact is that these two countries […]
Searching peace via Kabul and Lahore
By Vijay Darda | 28-12-2015 For the last 68 years, dealing with Pakistan has been a major challenge for New Delhi. There is the border dispute on Kashmir, there have been four wars, and the two sides are nuclear armed nations. If these are the negatives, then the most important positive is the shared […]
Sushmaji in Islamabad is fine, but why?
By Vijay Darda | 14-12-2015 The good news first. Our external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has travelled to Pakistan. She is the first foreign minister from India to go to Islamabad after the long forgotten S M Krishna in September 2012. Better news still awaits us when in nine months Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
Winning foreign friends: Not by words alone
By Vijay Darda | 16-03-2015 You can draw your own preferred conclusion. The top three: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Indian Ocean countries), finance minister Arun Jaitley (United Kingdom) and home minister Rajnath Singh (Japan) all decided to go abroad at the same time. No one can accuse these responsible men holding such crucial posts, […]
AAP stuns BJP; is it really good?
By Vijay Darda | 16-02-2015 In the first place, a huge round of applause is in order for the Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and his team. No amount of praise would be adequate enough for the manner in which they have surmounted the odds against them. They have overcome the combined might […]
Just a handshake for SAARC’s sake
By Vijay Darda | 01-12-2014 On 26th May this year, Narendra Modi began his tenure as India’s prime minister with a grand diplomatic move. He invited all the SAARC heads of state to his swearing-in ceremony. This was a first for any Indian prime minister. The fact that even Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif […]
Derailing Modi’s growth agenda
By Vijay Darda | 10-11-2014 First as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and then as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has been working on an inclusive and developmental agenda. One of his first gestures even before taking office was to invite all the SAARC leaders for his swearing-in ceremony. The fact that even Prime Minister […]
Good opening for Modi-fied India
By Vijay Darda | 09-06-2014 After his stunning victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a good opening, as the show biz people will tell you. There was the emotional touch at his being elected the leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party, followed by an international array of politicians at his swearing-in that had the […]
A new era of opportunities and challenges
By Vijay Darda | 01-06-2014 It is not just a coincidence that Narendra Modi begins his tenure as a Prime Minister on the eve of 50th death anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru — India’s first Prime Minister. The results were declared on May 16, and he had got a clear majority. So, there was […]