The Indian government seems to have fallen for the Big Business’ agenda of using electric cars even as climate change is accelerating. Everyone’s suddenly going electric, so India is doing...
I am writing to ask Americans whether they have no sense of shame left. If they do how can they tolerate a government like Obama’s which, despite the public beheading of two american journalist...
https://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/10/07/where-does-the-us-think-this-will-end/
Israel has been at the heart of the turmoil in the middle-east for the last eleven years. During this period it has bombed Lebanon, imposed an embargo on Gaza, then bombed Gaza not once but twice...
https://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/10/04/why-the-us-feted-modi/
Four months ago Narendra Modi rode to power on a promise to revive the Indian economy and restore to the people of India the future they had lost. But tendrils of doubt had begun to surface well ...
https://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/10/04/isis-the-dog-that-bit-its-master/
Two sets of bye elections show large fall in BJP support In his Presidential address to the national council of the BJP, on August 9, Amit Shah had ascribed his party’s resounding victory in th...
AN INEPT GOVERNMENT From the moment news broke that the Modi government had cancelled the foreign secretaries’ talks scheduled for August 25, the Indian media have been accusing Pakistan of sab...
https://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/09/19/why-is-obama-dithering-over-isis/
THE DOG THE BIT ITS MASTER ISIS rolled into Iraq in 200 pickup trucks on June 9. Had the US unleashed its air power then; had it even left the Iraqi government with a credible air force when it q...
https://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/09/19/why-has-the-bjp-fared-so-poorly-in-the-bye-elections/
India’s 16th general election has been unique for many reasons. No previous election has been so relentlessly and exhaustively discussed; no previous election – not even the post Emergency el...
https://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/05/17/indian-politics-has-entered-uncharted-waters/
Exactly two years ago, on March 4, 2012 US President Obama told AIPAC, the premier American-Israeli lobbying body in the US “I have a policy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. I wi...
When India’s ambassador Ashok Kantha presented his credentials along with 13 other ambassadors to Chinese President Xi Jinping last month, he was one of only three diplomats with whom the presi...
https://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/04/14/indias-most-fateful-election/