IDDF
Senior Fellow at IDDF focusing on strategic analysis, foreign policy, and international governance.

Syria’s homecoming: On Arab League’s decision to readmit Syria
The Arab League’s decision to readmit Syria, after over a decade of isolation, signals a growing desire of…

UAE’s minister of economy writes: UAE-India CEPA promoted a favourable environment for startups to thrive in both countries
Shaped by millennia-old journeys of cultural and economic engagement on the Indian Ocean’s network of exchange, the India-UAE…
Keep off or risk quake, says Assad
Damascus, Oct. 30: Syria???s President, Bashar al-Assad, has warned that Western action against his country would cause an ???earthquake???…
Erdogan’s India visit – A Muslim nationalist meets a Hindu nationalist
Basking in glory after emerging victorious in a recent divisive referendum, Turkish leader Erdogan is traveling to India…
Critics locked up at home, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives today
* Kashif Hassan Khan, a Mumbai resident, was planning to marry his Turkish fiancee Ruqayya before she was…
US-RUSSIA RELATIONS & WEST ASIAN CRISES
Considering the rising clout of Putin-led Russia and the American folly in Syria and Iraq, it is unlikely…
Non-mention of Kashmir in declaration welcome
The latest declaration of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) comes as a big boost to India’s persistent…
Rediscovery of non-alignment
A disappointing feature of India’s foreign policy since Independence has been the almost complete absence of a meaningful…
Manmohan to meet Khamenei, Ahmadinejad
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave for Iran on August 28, 2012 to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)…
???Democracy too is Darwinian’
Socio-biology throws surprises at us, asking us to be appreciative of many other animals and even insects like…