Articles by Manoj Joshi
China, sweet and sour
Across the political spectrum ? from the crimson Left to the deep saffron ? conventional wisdom is that the UPA government has sold out to the US.
Published on May 31, 2006 01:49 AM IST
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Look before you leap
War is supposed to be a continuation of politics by other means. Maybe it?s true, maybe not, but there?s one similarity between the two ? it does take genius to profit from political and military masterstrokes.
Published on May 17, 2006 04:01 AM IST
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Mr Muscles MP
He is arguably the most powerful man in the Lok Sabha, but only in the physical sense, writes Manoj Joshi.
Published on May 11, 2006 11:59 PM IST
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Challenge and response
In my last column, two weeks ago, I compared the Maoist insurgency to a rogue bacteria eating the country from within. This time I would like to take up the other bacteria ? Indian Muslim radicalism.
Published on May 03, 2006 12:21 AM IST
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They are the hollow men
Among the myriad of interesting facts and revelations in Bill Bryson?s Short History of Nearly Everything, the one that stuck most vividly in my mind is about a very rare condition in which benign bacteria within our bodies turn rogue and begin eating us, inside out.
Published on Apr 21, 2006 01:54 AM IST
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Nippon Redux
The Japan of today is a bit like Rip Van Winkle. After a 15-year hibernation, the world?s second largest economy is astir and the process has portentous consequences for not just Asia or the world, but India, writes Manoj Joshi.
Updated on Apr 05, 2006 02:57 AM IST
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More than half full
The bigger picture: Shift mental gears and catch up with the PM?s foreign policy, writes Manoj Joshi.
Published on Mar 22, 2006 01:17 AM IST
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Deal, not ordeal
The Indo-US nuclear deal is the best India could have got, ever. Consider. In the Seventies, we set a target of having 10,000 MW of nuclear power by 2000.
Published on Mar 10, 2006 02:25 AM IST
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?Aim was to change world order?
There's considerable satisfaction in the highest levels of Govt over the successful conclusion of Bush's visit, writes Manoj Joshi.
Published on Mar 05, 2006 12:59 AM IST
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Left?s turn on nuclear deal not the right course
when the left set out to oppose the nuclear deal, they became the instrument of maximizing the India's nuclear arsenal, writes Manoj Joshi.
Updated on Mar 04, 2006 02:17 AM IST
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Fact and fiction
There is a curious slow motion about the protests against the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in India.
Published on Feb 22, 2006 01:04 AM IST
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Firing blanks
December 1990: Kuwait has been invaded by Saddam Hussein and the US is creating a coalition to recapture it.
Published on Feb 10, 2006 03:53 AM IST
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Kaun banega anti-imperialist?
?Strategic defiance? is the new ?non-alignment?. It?s actually even sillier, writes Manoj Joshi.
Published on Feb 10, 2006 03:53 AM IST
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The energy matrix
?There is a tide in the affairs of men,? goes an overused Shakespeare phrase, ?Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life/ Is bound in shallows and in miseries.?
Published on Jan 25, 2006 02:21 AM IST
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Too clever by half
The situation between India and Pakistan may not be bleak, as Pakistani spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam clarified on Monday, but it is most certainly grim.
Published on Jan 11, 2006 02:13 AM IST
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'We share mutual values'
Japan?s Foreign Minister Taro Aso is one of two politicians tipped to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi when he retires. A Liberal Democratic Party stalwart, Aso was in New Delhi on an official visit on Wednesday. He spoke to Manoj Joshi.
Published on Jan 05, 2006 01:16 AM IST
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Documenting fundamentals
A microscopic look at the great jihad machine of Pakistan, which gives sleepness nights to many around the world.
Published on Oct 30, 2004 12:39 PM IST
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Manmohan's team: Low key but professional
Manmohan Singh's PMO is characteristic of the man- low key and professional. "The new PMO will be a 'below-the-radar' affair," says a senior official.
Updated on Jun 19, 2004 04:13 PM IST
PTI | Manoj Joshi, New Delhi
Middle march
Election 2004 has marked BJP?s decision to fight the poll as a ?normal? one.
Published on May 07, 2004 11:47 AM IST
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