Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra   Hillary Clinton's protective shield offered to the Muslims and the LGBTs is self-defeating. After all, what exactly has Clinton, the Clinton family, her husband, her daughter or her son-in-law, sacrificed for the…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra Dismissing the "process and procedural" objections of "small countries" to India's NSG bid as somehow less problematic than China's (largely geo-political) opposition is an unwise course of action. Make no mistake: The…
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 Abhijit Iyer-Mitra As a ceasefire of sorts takes hold in Syria, Russia seems to be notching up zero sum victories, both in Syria and Ukraine. These victories may well shift our notion of what counts as 'victory' in this day and age, but…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra   The arbitrary purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to France, is now being rapidly followed up with the French Defence Minister's second visit to India within the year. When…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra When one talks of the China-Pakistan nexus, the Indian response, almost reflexively, tends to be one of bitterness and fear. Recent announcements made during Chinese President Xi Xinping's short visit to Pakistan have…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra Irrespective of the vigour of the new Defence Minister and an emphasis on Make in India, several developments over the last few months have made clear that the army modernisation programme, at least, is turning into a…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra Pakistan after the Peshawar school massacre remains much the same as Pakistan before the school massacre. After a few days of selective, manufactured outrage, things are back to normal - everyone supports the army, no…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra At around the same time that President Barack Obama decided to take up Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to visit Delhi for Republic Day, our other great ally Russia was announcing the sale of Mi-35 attack…
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 Abhijit Iyer-Mitra Slowly but surely signs are emerging of a paradigm shift in the way security is understood in the country. The issue is that while the disastrous tender for the light aircraft replacement and the recent clearance of…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra If the Modi Government's stance at the World Trade Organisation was a classic case of the best kind of decision-making being badly explained and badly sold to the public, then, sadly, examples in national security abound…
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