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Ashok Malik
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Ashok Malik is senior fellow, Observer Research Foundation. He can be reached at malikashok@gmail.com
    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Waiting Game: 3 am tweet' mantri resets MEA

    Sushma Swaraj has effected this shift brilliantly and has set the bar extremely high for future foreign ministers.

    30 Dec 2016 3:48 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Waiting Game: Shadows of the past loom on 2017

    The traditional multilateral architecture of Asia is under strain.

    25 Dec 2016 12:23 AM IST

    Sasikala NatarajanOpinion
    Waiting Game: Succession struggle in political parties

    Political parties are not very good at succession planning.

    11 Dec 2016 12:31 AM IST

    Firms with net worth of Rs 25 crore could operate 51 to 200 cash vans and companies with net worth of Rs 100 crore can operate more than 500 cash vans, the IBA said. (Photo: Representational Image)Opinion
    Waiting Game: Some lessons for a less-cash economy

    Demonetisation requires a reimagining of bureaucratic regulations and a buy-in from both Union and state governments.

    27 Nov 2016 12:58 AM IST

    US President-elect Donald Trump said in interviews that he would consider an \amended\ version of the 2010 law, a shift in position after vowing on the campaign trail to repeal the measure. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Waiting Game: India, Trump and the future matrix

    Mr Trump is likely to pick and choose from Pivot to Asia.

    13 Nov 2016 12:50 AM IST

    BSP Supremo Mayawati (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Waiting Game: UP - BSP has a slight advantage over BJP

    The SP is not going to simply collapse and disappear to convenience its rivals.

    30 Oct 2016 12:40 AM IST

    BCCI joint-secretary Amitabh Choudhary with Chief selector MSK Prasad, skipper MS Dhoni and other selection committee members at a meeting to pick the Indian ODI squad against New Zealand. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Judicial jihad against BCCI

    Bengal and its football clubs have punched well above their population in soccer.

    16 Oct 2016 1:30 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Waiting Game: Saarc - Stuck between coma and death

    The Modi government has changed India's approach.

    2 Oct 2016 12:58 AM IST

    The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi chairing the High Level Meeting in the wake of Uri terror attack, in New Delhi (Photo: PIB)Opinion
    Waiting Game: What to do after Uri? Choices before Modi

    The Modi government has indicated it doesn't quite buy the “escalation is inevitable” logic.

    20 Sept 2016 12:50 AM IST

    Mother Teresa. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Waiting Game: Mother T's true legacy

    Mother Teresa's work and institution-building is her true legacy and her true miracle.

    5 Sept 2016 12:18 AM IST

    Bihar: Tipple tips the odds against NitishOpinion
    Bihar: Tipple tips the odds against Nitish

    The prohibition policy, creating a women's constituency is seen as Nitish Kumar's quest for a security blanket.

    21 Aug 2016 3:40 AM IST

    Waiting Game: Gujarat - Caste awayOpinion
    Waiting Game: Gujarat - Caste away

    Vijay Rupani, a Jain, is caste neutral.

    7 Aug 2016 12:23 AM IST

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