Annexure E: The Silence That Meets The Rape Of Palestinians
Nicholas Kristof wrote his Opinion, The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians in The New York Times on 11 May 2026. It vividly records male and female Palestinians describing brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators. It created a furore in Israel. The Netanyahu Government has accused […]
Annexure F: Fodder for Antisemitism
Social media plays a significant role in influencing views by amplifying events and opinions. The posts can be both constructive and they can be outright fake. Even worse, they can be subtly misinformative, which is especially harmful because it lends credence to lies. On social media platforms, I deal only with issues of which I […]
Carney’s Whitlamesque Pivot To China
Carney’s Beijing Visit Echoes Whitlam’s China Pivot PM Carney’s visit to Beijing replicated for Canada what Gough Whitlam’s 1971 trip to China sought to achieve for Australia: a fundamental reshaping of the bedrock dependence on the United States for both national security and economic prosperity, by embracing emerging geopolitical realities. Canadian Prime Minister Carney’s journey […]
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 – I forget his name – presented his Credentials to (William Sidney, 1st Viscount) Lord De L’Isle. The setting was the […]
Indian-origin Diplomats in New Delhi: Australia was the Trend Setter
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Modi’s silence on atrocities against minorities is disturbing
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Sino-Indian Relations: Time to take a Stand
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