You can change friends but not neighbours.

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.