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Rup Narayan Das

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BJD-BJP Alliance: Wishful Thinking
Rediff.com23 Mar 2024

Although the BJP has never been ballistic about the BJD and Narendra Modi has avoided...

Russia's Unease Over India-US Proximity
Rediff.com5 Mar 2024

The scaling up of the India-US strategic partnership to the level of non-NATO ally with...

India-France Strategic Partnership To Bloom
Rediff.com25 Jan 2024

India-France synergy is poised to open vistas of collaboration between the two...

Taiwan: A Thorn In China-US Relations
Rediff.com12 Jan 2024

Any miscalculation and miscommunication are fraught with the risk of a major...

Weathering Foreign Policy Storms In 2023
Rediff.com2 Jan 2024

Foreign policy is always a work in progress and ups and downs are built into foreign...

What Ails India's Civil Service
Rediff.com3 Oct 2023

'A large portion of youngsters who aspire to join the civil services are not motivated...

Why China Issued Stapled Visas To Arunachal Athletes
Rediff.com26 Sep 2023

The Chinese inference is that if the Chinese visa is embossed on an Indian passport,...

Memories Of Parliament House As It Passes Into History
Rediff.com18 Sep 2023

At this poignant historic moment one can only wish that institutions are not built by...

Can Modi Broker Peace In Ukraine?
Rediff.com10 Apr 2023

Only the future will tell if Modi can leave his mark on the Ukraine crisis....

Why China Is Worried About Hong Kong
Rediff.com7 Apr 2022

'Although Hong Kong weathered many a storm and displayed a remarkable resilience to...

Why Xi Hates This Lady
Rediff.com18 Oct 2021

An independent Taiwan under President Tsai Ing-wen's Democratic Progressive Party is...

When Biju Patnaik reached out to US to counter China
Rediff.com21 Dec 2020

Rup Narayan Das reveals the towering Odisha leader's role in improving national...

Andaman & Nicobar can attract Hong Kong investments
Rediff.com9 Jun 2020

'Leaders of the Indian community in Hong Kong had broached the idea of developing the...

India-China relations: The show must go on
Rediff.com19 May 2020

Trump can afford to say that COVID-19 is a 'China virus', but we can't expect Modi to...

Why Justin Trudeau's India visit is important
Rediff.com16 Feb 2018

'The India-Canada relationship has suffered benign neglect. Its full potential has not...

No Chinese upmanship at BRICS please!
Rediff.com4 Sep 2017

'It is unrealistic to expect that security dilemmas and strategic distrust to disappear...

The year India and China hoped high, delivered low
Rediff.com2 Jan 2017

India and China met and spoke a lot this year, but failed to produce any meaningful...

China may soften stance on India's NSG bid
Rediff.com22 Jun 2016

If China's behaviour in the past on ticklish issues is any indication then China could...

India-US relations: The elephant in the room
Rediff.com7 Jun 2016

The greatest challenge before India is how to strike a fine balance of its relationship...

China must address India's persistent security dilemma
Rediff.com14 May 2015

'Difficult issues should not be brushed under the carpet, but should be raised upfront,...