Yellowcake Diplomacy is Worth It

The following article was published in 2011 at a crucial time in the development of Australia Indians relations on the issue of the export of Australian uranium sales to India. Please click here: https://downloadingmymind.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AFRpublishedarticle-16NOV11.pdf

In Praise of Mr Trump

IN PRAISE OF MR TRUMP He has demystified Foreign Policy and the Making of it Say what you will about Real Estate entrepreneur Trump, his approach to foreign policy has shattered the 300-year-old mould for making it. Western Chanceries have long clung to two sacrosanct principles that define their craft in formulating foreign policies: An […]

American democracy in chaos: Trump’s disruptive actions echo Mao’s Cultural Revolution

In the whirlwind of Trump’s brazen assault on Washington’s policies and practices, echoes of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution are flickering. Most starkly, the intimidation and sacking of the “leftist woke” officials by Trump’s zealous acolytes and young “Muskrats” bear eerily resemblance to the actions of Mao and his teenage Red Guards, who in 1966 began […]

Australia-India Relations: The Father, the Son & a Ghost or two

By Rakesh Ahuja 1. My father was posted to the Indian High Commission in Canberra in 1961. K R Narayanan was then the Acting High Commissioner (Note1). In 1963, the new Indian High Commissioner presented his Credentials to (William Sidney, 1st Viscount) Lord De L’Isle. The setting was the Governor General’s Residence, Government House, Canberra. […]