K S Venkatachalam

There is no denying that when it comes to planning for at least 10-15 years ahead, no one can even come close to the Chinese. We have seen over the last 5 years, the Chinese are investing heavily in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar, mainly in infrastructural projects. According to experts, these investments have two […]

The year 2016 will go down in history as one of the worst years in the Indo-Pakistan relations. Not that the relations in earlier years were much to write home about, however, what has changed is the complete breakdown of communications between the two countries. It appears that the politicians on both sides have buried […]

Hacking of sensitive information and data is nothing new. Individual hackers and groups have been carrying out cyber crimes for quite some time by breaking into computer networks to obtain sensitive information to be misused for ulterior motives. Recently, over 270 millions of email accounts belonging to major service providers like Yahoo and Google were […]

A human crisis of monumental proportion is unfolding in Myanmar. It is reported over 100 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by the Burmese army. Over 10,000 have escaped from Myanmar from being persecuted by the army and Buddhist monks, and are living in squalor in Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia. According to human rights watch, over […]

The New York Times, in its editorial published on October 8, 1999, praised the Indian Democracy in glowing terms. According to the NY times, for more than five decades, Indian democracy has succeeded against all the odds. The editorial went on to add that 360 million voters have proved that a commitment to resolving disputes […]

At a time when the Indo-Pak relations are awash with jingoism and nationalistic hyperbole; coupled with the heightened tension at the border that has the possibility of escalating into a low-intensity war, the real issues affecting the well-being of the people have scarcely received the attention it deserves. Three recent findings recently released by the […]

President Obama will go down in history as a visionary leader, an able administrator, a pacifist, and above all, an astute statesman and a strategist. He soon realised that the only way to protect the interests of East Asian countries to cope with an aggressive China was by establishing military, diplomatic and trade ties with […]

The unthinkable has happened in the recently held US presidential elections. The person predicted by the political pundits and the leading pollsters to win the elections ended up on the losing side. Americans have shown their preference for a person who was called sexist, racist, misogynist and xenophobic by the media is the 45th President […]

The attempt of Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, to take his country closer to China is symptomatic of the waning influence of the United States in Asia. More and more countries in the Middle East are now moving away from the US orbit, as they no longer find the US to be a […]

Never in the history of India-Pakistan relations has one seen a complete breakdown in communication. Even during the height of the Kargil conflict, the back channel talks were continuing. It is sad to see that the relations are now at their lowest level where civility has been replaced by pseudo nationalism. The sane voices on […]