Mainstream Weekly

Safeguarding the Republic

K. Subrahmanyam — 2011-02-19T04:29:52Z

[(TRIBUTE
K. Subrahmanyam, 82, India's pioneering strategic thinker, passed away in New Delhi on February 2, 2011. He leaves behind his wife, three sons and a daughter; while one of his sons, Jaishankar, is currently our ambassador in Beijing, another son, Sanjay, is a historian teaching at the UCLA, and a third, Vijay, is a Secretary in the Government of India.
As The Times of India has aptly observed editorially,
“The demise of K. Subrahmanyam… should be an occasion to reflect on (…)

- 2011

The Copy-book President

K. Subrahmanyam — 2010-12-12T18:29:08Z

President R. Venkataraman, whose 100th birthday falls today, called himself a copy-book President, and compared the role of the Indian presidency to that of an “emergency light” which comes into play only when needed. His style of functioning as a copy-book President was in sharp contrast with that of his predecessor, during whose last two years in office Delhi was rife with rumours of his attempts to dismiss an elected Prime Minister with a massive majority in the Lok Sabha.
Though (…)

- 2010

US is Not Opting to Lose the Afghan War

K. Subrahmanyam — 2010-03-06T11:07:09Z

The London Conference in which India felt it was marginalised, the sudden crackdown by the Pakistanis against the leadership of Quetta Shura whose existence they had denied all this time, the detention of 124 militants, the spate of anti-Taliban articles and pronouncements in the Pakistani print and electronic media and the glowing certificates from high-level US officials on Pakistani cooperation with US strategy—all this has persuaded the Indian strategic community that the Obama (…)

- 2010