On the panel as Dealmaker in the Department for Business and Trade, in the Indian High Commission and FICCI event, I am looking for in the Global Entrepreneur Programme scale up companies whose founders would be suitable for the UK Innovator...
Independent minded and giving strength to the rest of the nation is what the Spartans were known for.
Pakistan has spent decades presenting itself as the champion of Kashmiris. It is an increasingly difficult performance to sustain when Kashmiris living under Pakistani control are being arrested, beaten and killed for demanding political rights....
There is a peculiar way in which the history of India is told. India was conquered. India was ruled. India was liberated in 1947. All three statements are true. Yet taken together, they tell only half the story.
For much of the post-war period, free trade agreements were judged by simple metrics. How many tariffs were abolished? How much trade increased? How many containers crossed borders? Trade was principally about moving goods more efficiently across...
So the deal went live on 15th July. I appeared on BBC News to explain its meaning. Let me do that here again.
There is an old legal maxim that justice delayed is justice denied. It is quoted so often that it risks becoming a cliché. Yet clichés usually survive because they contain an uncomfortable truth.Few people understand that truth better than Subash...
This week I had lunch with the Swedish ambassador at his residence. To my right was the ambassador, and to my left was a professor in mathematics from Oxford University of Swedish heritage. One of the things we discussed is how to attract more...
The Chinese government has taken offence at New Delhi hosting the forthcoming Quad multilateral. Should it? Should Quad be anti-China? The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, is frequently described as an “Asian NATO.” This comparison...
Election week and headlines of terrorist attacks in UK and Europe and let's not forget Israel and India.
General Anil Chauhan, India's Chief of Defence Staff, arrived in London this week for the first-ever official visit by an Indian CDS to the United Kingdom. The agenda covered cyber security, intelligence sharing, defence industrial collaboration...
The funding for protecting religious sites in the UK came to my attention. Liberal democracies like to imagine that they can reconcile everything. Freedom of expression, religious identity, and social cohesion are all held up as public goods,...
