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N Sathiya Moorthy

N Sathiya Moorthy

- Opinion
- January 23, 2025, 4:30 PM IST
Opinion | What Trump’s Expansionist Mindset Has For The World
Europe has so far not commented on Trump’s statements on Canada and Greenland, but any further move in this regard, post-inauguration, could undo the strong and vibrant internal dynamics
- Opinion
- November 21, 2023, 4:13 PM IST
Opinion | My Way or The Highway: Is this Maldivian President’s Message to India?
Muizzu conveyed his request for New Delhi to withdraw the military personnel when Kiren Rijiju paid a courtesy call on him. Another leader in his place may have waited for some time to pass before taking up such a sensitive issue, especially with an immediate neighbour
- Opinion
- October 20, 2023, 2:42 PM IST
Opinion | Multiple Messages from Gaza
The uncomplicated American message for Israel is not to overdo its retaliatory attacks of the Gaza people, after the Hamas had landed the most humiliating and destructive attack on the Jewish nation ever
- Opinion
- August 19, 2023, 5:07 PM IST
Opinion | Can India ‘Reclaim’ Katchatheevu From Sri Lanka?
Though directly not interlinked in technical terms, any perception of India’s changing position on Katchatheevu could jeopardise its own plans for finding permanent solutions to the fuel crisis in Sri Lanka
- Opinion
- May 19, 2023, 3:23 PM IST
Opinion | Whose Indo-Pacific Are You Talking About?
India is a founding partner in the Indo-Pacific and Quad and a member of the CSC. Whether or not it sees its multiple initiatives of the kind pointing to its greater interest in promoting the US-led Indo-Pacific, at least other nations in the region have come to believe that is the case
- Opinion
- February 25, 2023, 1:42 PM IST
Opinion | India’s 3-D Distortion: Demography, Democracy and Development
If those in the British-India government took South and East Indians to Mumbai and Delhi a century ago, today, the roles are reversed. Literate and illiterate job seekers from the North, East and North-East are flocking to the South, for high and low-end jobs
- Opinion
- February 16, 2023, 1:46 PM IST
Ukraine War: How India Turns Geo-Economic Necessity into a Geo-Political Opportunity
India has reiterated its ‘strategic independence’ with reinvigorated valour, bordering on adamancy, and thankfully, not arrogance
- Opinion
- January 19, 2023, 6:24 PM IST
Opinion | Jaishankar in Colombo: Will he be Tough on Sri Lanka for Addressing India’s China Concern?
As coincidence would have it, S Jaishankar’s Colombo visit comes back-to-back after one by a Chinese ministerial delegation
- Opinion
- January 13, 2023, 3:11 PM IST
Opinion | Tamil Nadu Governor-Government Row Is Ideological, Not Constitutional Or Even Political
The Tamil Nadu governor walked out of the assembly amid row with chief minister MK Stalin over his speech
- Opinion
- December 21, 2022, 11:47 AM IST
Opinion | Two in a Row, and Centre’s View can Risk Sri Lanka Fishers’ Issue Even More
One is the Centre’s affidavit in the Supreme Court, and the other is a parliamentary statement made by none other than External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, both on different aspects of the fishers’ issue
- Opinion
- December 17, 2022, 2:12 PM IST
Opinion | China and the Gulf: Why Xi Jinping’s Visit Should Push India to Reorient its Foreign Policy
This may be an opportunity for Indian strategic thinkers to come up with out-of-the-box solutions, where India can create a global constituency to call its own, independent of the US, Russia or Europe, and without a UNSC veto
- Opinion
- December 3, 2022, 3:51 PM IST
West’s Double-Standards on Human Rights and Terrorism: The Boot Could Be On The Other Foot, Too
Diplomatic decency demands that the US and the rest of the West do not carry the ‘colonial baggage’ that they alone know what is good for the world
- Opinion
- November 25, 2022, 3:16 PM IST
Opinion | Why India Should Think of Automatic Elevation for Higher Judiciary, Election Commission
Can Election Commissioners, whether promotees or others, be given such fixed terms, say, two, three or five years? In a way, the promotees won’t need much of learning time, which is essential for outsiders
- Opinion
- October 16, 2022, 6:25 PM IST
Opinion | Should India Go Beyond Appeals and Facilitate Ending the Ukraine War?
India, and India alone, has positioned itself in a way, though mostly unintentionally, where it could be of help, if at all any nation can help
- Opinion
- July 10, 2022, 6:52 PM IST
What Do Popular Protests in Sri Lanka Amid Crisis Mean for the Future?
The next few days are as crucial for deciding the future of the nation’s politics as the past many weeks

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