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.
As we approach the anniversary of the first atomic explosion on July 16th, a momentous event that forever altered the course of human history, we are also greeted with the release of the movie 'Oppenheimer'. This convergence of past and present,...
As the 5th iteration of the India Global Forum's (IGF) flagship event, India Week 2023 has once again reminded us of the importance of the longstanding partnership between the UK and India1. An event of such magnitude is not just a platform...
Last Friday, on a panel in Parliament, alongside an Indian diplomat, I congratulated them on their PM’s outstanding speech to the US Congress. Then I promptly turned to a UK Parliamentarian and joked someone’s muscling in on the UK-US Special...
This past week Henry Kissinger provided advice to the US on relations with China. But what would Kissinger advise on India-China relations? Of course there is little love lost between India and Henry Kissinger. He stood behind Pakistan’s atrocities...
It appears that you find yourselves in a bit of a sticky wicket, what with these allegations of criminality nipping at your heels. It's always unfortunate when one's past misdeeds, real or imagined, come back to haunt them like an unpaid intern....
The Prime Minister met with leaders in Artificial Intelligence a few days ago. Leaders in AI claim it will destroy mankind. You may think of Einstein’s warning about the nuclear bomb he helped create. Regulation we are told is the answer. We...
As a former Council Member of Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs) I wondered how Foreign Relations might be ‘wargamed’ or ‘chess...
As Pakistan self-destructs there are telling tales relevant for the UK.
The Daily Mail decided to run with this headline “Violent ethnic clashes in Leicester last year 'were stoked by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party', sources claim; sources claim that those in Bharatiya Janata Party...
“Ultimately, what should guide India is the quest to make itself a great power with a difference, namely, in a way which enables it to achieve Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of ‘wiping the tear from the eye of every Indian.’ That would be in keeping...
