Kishan S Rana

Remembering Mandela's legacy

The chapters are thematic, each examining the evolution of transformation and national unity, covering the presidency and the Constitution and social and economic challenges

Ensuring that the MEA delivers

Comprehensive diplomatic goals, broken down into action plans for embassies, needed

Transforming foreign policy

As a significant global player, India has to play a more nuanced, multilayered diplomatic game

Kishan S Rana: Why India needs smart diplomacy

The country's diplomatic machinery should have more resources for proactive external engagement

Diplomacy and patronage

Diplomacy especially attracts presidential cronies, and those that buy their ambassadorships

Kishan S Rana: China - Prospects and paradoxes

Aide-memoire

M K Rasgotra has created an enduring portrait of Indian diplomacy in the first 50 years of Independence

Lost opportunities in Indonesian ties

Kishan S Rana: Some steps for India's renewal

Is the idea of cooperative governance, in which governing coalitions and opposing parties actually join in tackling real issues, truly beyond our ken?

Kishan S Rana: Revising civil service recruitment

China operates a huge, rigorous selection and training process, from the junior-most levels to minister and governor. We can learn much from the numbers processed and the objective procedures

Kishan S Rana: India and China - A grand design

Last week in Shanghai, Indian and Chinese firms signed joint work plans. That is the way to go - compete, but also cohabit if feasible

Kishan S Rana: India and China: cooperation, competition or contestation?

Four major political takeaways from Narendra Modi's much-anticipated trip to China

Kishan S Rana: The Silk Roads and India today

India cannot resent neighbours moving ahead with infrastructure projects that serve their interests, funded by Chinese munificence

Kishan S Rana: A new beginning in the Indian Ocean

Narendra Modi's visit could reset relations with the island states to India's south

Kishan S Rana & Hemant Krishan Singh: Evaluating Barack Obama's landmark visit

Two former Indian diplomats provide two different viewpoints on how the president's recent official trip moved India-US relations forward

An anatomy of diplomacy

Kishan S Rana: How to brand India

To galvanise foreign investment, the government has to think harder about how to create and maintain a national brand

China's empire state-building

Kishan S Rana: How Mr Modi can revitalise the foreign ministry

The prime minister has emphasised economic diplomacy, and the MEA's priorities and structure must reflect that

Kishan S Rana: Dealing with the Silk Route merchants

China's president wants to connect India with Central Asia, but India should focus on looking East