interview
June 2010
Thai politics losing its innocence
David Watts
 
India-Iran bonhomie coincides with US-Iran standoff
Inder Malhotra
 
India cautious on resumption of dialogue with Pakistan
G Parthasarathy
 
Why Faisal Shahzad bombed Times Square
Pervez Hoodbhoy
 
Militants now train guns on ISI
Rahimullah Yusufzai
 
Gulmarg– White winter
 
Dealing with decentralised
jihad and lone wolves
Scott Stewart
 
Nuclear tie-up with Turkey
boosts Russia
Andrew Small
 
South Asians break records in the new British parliament
Shyam Bhatia
 
Ayurveda — in the quest of
recognition in UK
David Watts
 
Indian relics await return to their homeland
Kuldip Nayar
 
Dr. Tim Forsyth rules out revolution in Thailand
Shyam Bhatia
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

June 2010

Quotes

 
 

Chinese do not talk as much as Indians, but Chinese perform better, they do much more. I am full of admiration for the way that China just gets to work, where as you know, India talk and talk and keep on talking.
Jairam Ramesh quoted in Xinhua

They drove their car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, [and] now they want the keys back. No! They can't drive!
President Barack Obama, criticizing the Republican party at a Democratic party fundraiser in New York

Nature really played in favour of the opium economy. This year, we see the opposite situation.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, on a mysterious fungal disease that has infected half of Afghanistan's poppy crop; opium prices in the region have risen by 50%

The idea that we can walk away from Iraq is, I think, terribly damaging on its face, and to say that, 'well that's the only way we can get the Iraqis to take on responsibility,' I don't believe that's the case.

Dick Cheney disputing the idea that the Iraqis need to take responsibility for their government in an interview with ABC News

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