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The glass ceiling in diplomacy

Of buffaloes, peacocks, tigers and fireflies

Kishan S Rana: An open letter: diplomacy with growth in mind

Domestically, embassies must become part of economic agencies' planning; globally, these must help businesses in understanding potential foreign markets

Kishan S Rana: For the foreign ministry, a task within the country's borders

Under the new and more federal dispensation, the ministry of external affairs should reach out to the states

Kishan S Rana: The truth about summits

Simply put, bilateral summits should be treated as building blocks in a long-term, multi-faceted and continuous process, not as standalone or unique events

Happening stuff

Non-alignment after the Cold War

How India needs better advocacy to mobilise more FDI

Besides policy implementation at home, embassies abroad must push India as an investment destination

Time for India to hit back at UK's irrational visa barriers

Former ambassador to Germany argues why India should reciprocate by imposing a bond on British visitors on a matching basis

Indo-Pak relations, from the files

A monumental work laying out the key documents on Indo-Pak relations contains both insights and material for many PhD dissertations

Why co-operation with neighbouring countries is vital for India's Northeast

A sidelight of the Chinese prime minister's India visit was official approval for expanding a well-functioning mechanism for regional co-operation

Foreign visits and the headlines

As recent European visits showed, public diplomacy is a struggle during bilateral summits

India's aid diplomacy

Diplomatic facts and fiction

An entertaining collection of columns from the former diplomat and foreign minister K Natwar Singh

'The art of practical possibilities'

Kishan S Rana: The 1962 war - Where did India go wrong?

As India failed in its negotiations with China, the 'border issue' became a Greek tragedy with a preordained outcome

Kishan S Rana: China - At the crossroads

It is safe to look to the major leadership change underway in China to identify the issues that will figure in the years ahead

Kishan S Rana: 'A message for Mr Nehru's ears only'

Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai made efforts at rapprochement but the scars of the 1962 war ran too deep for the Indian PM

Kishan S Rana: Battle lines of the 1962 war

New evidence suggests that China was preparing to hit hard across the Himalayas

Indian diplomacy from the inside