India ups the ante in carbon trade war
I can’t claim we timed this, but a day after the May 24 AEI session, “The First Carbon Trade War,” India vowed to ban European airlines from its airspace if the EU didn’t back down on its decision to...
View ArticleIndia’s Muslim question
Depending on who’s counting, India houses either the world’s second largest Muslim population after Indonesia, or the third largest after Pakistan. The country’s stability hinges in part on how well it...
View ArticleIndia, China, and the Olympics
As the London Olympics draw to a close, punditry on what the medals table says about the world is flowing thick and fast. At the Financial Times, Matthew Engel argues, with a touch of hyperbole, that...
View ArticleShooting the messenger in India
Over at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, Pranesh Prakash has an excellent (partial) summary of the more than 300 web sites blocked by the Indian government as part of its ongoing...
View ArticleConfidence in Indian government plummets
As economic growth slows to below 6% and yet another corruption scandal gridlocks governance, are Indians losing faith in their politicians? A spate of recent articles suggests that’s certainly true of...
View ArticleIs India’s anti-corruption movement dead?
In my WSJ column this week, I write about the birth of India’s first political party formed explicitly to cleanse the country’s public life of graft. And today, the new party’s founder, 44-year-old...
View ArticleIndia’s ungilded age
In Friday’s Wall Street Journal Asia, I join an ongoing debate on whether India is in the midst of its version of America’s “gilded age.” The notion first acquired prominence last year when former...
View ArticleIndia’s mendacity slows progress in the fight against lethal medicines
Vienna – Efforts to rid the world of dangerous medicines have been given a boost by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. Representatives of nations, police, manufacturers, academics, and...
View ArticleIndian drug protectionism wins again
On Monday, the Indian Supreme Court ended a seven year legal fight with drug company Novartis when it denied a patent for the company’s blockbuster Leukemia drug, Glivec. Health activists hailed the...
View ArticleBJP succession blues in India
Over the past week, I’ve written twice about India’s Bharatiya Janata Party and its attempts to unite behind a popular but polarizing new leader: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In a nutshell,...
View ArticleThe moral cost of India’s awful food security bill
In my Wall Street Journal column today, I explain why a proposed new law in India that seeks to provide subsidized grains to 800 million people is like something concocted by a Soviet planner on a bad...
View ArticleWill America’s Afghanistan policy end up stoking jihad in Kashmir?
During his visit to New Delhi this week for the fourth US-India strategic dialogue, Secretary of State John Kerry assured India that the US is not about to abandon Afghanistan. To put it mildly, he has...
View ArticleDivided states of India
Would India be better run if it was broken up into smaller states? In my Wall Street Journal column this week, I write about a proposal to create the new state of Telangana, to be carved out of...
View ArticleIndia’s labor pains
The Indian Planning Commission just proposed a “massive” overhaul of the country’s labor laws. Aimed at salvaging the declining manufacturing sector, the plan is to allow a relatively liberal hire and...
View ArticleIndia has only itself to blame for rupee free-fall
The Indian rupee closed today at a lifetime low of 68.8 to the dollar. Its drop of 20% since January makes it the world’s worst performing major currency, beating South Africa’s rand, Indonesia’s...
View ArticleWill bad economics sabotage US-India relations? Q&A with Sadanand Dhume
The architects of American foreign policy view India as a vital strategic partner, and have espoused policies designed to buttress India’s role as an alternative role model to authoritarian China, a...
View ArticleSmashing debut of India’s anti-corruption party
As India prepares for national elections in May 2014, results of state assembly elections over the weekend signaled a victory for the “politics of change” and a possible “third alternative” for 2014....
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With national elections looming, how will Indian entrepreneurs vote?
With Indian national elections less than five months away, will voters choose Congress’ redistribution agenda, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s growth plans, or the increasingly popular...
View ArticleUS-India diplomat row winds down with expulsions
The US decision to effectively expel Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade yesterday marks the winding down of a spat that has strained US-India ties more than any event since India’s 1998 nuclear tests....
View ArticleThree lessons from Manmohan Singh’s prime ministership
Earlier this week, I assessed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s lackluster 10-year record for Foreign Policy. You can read the whole thing here, but in the meantime here are the three biggest...
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