So much has changed in the world. The Americans, who once used to put all their sensitive military equipment out of bounds for India, are now falling over themselves to sell all they can to this country. The United States will be the largest foreign presence at Aero India 2013, which begins at Yelahanka Air Force Station on Wednesday, with some 67 companies, with the likes of Boeing and Lockheed Martin in the lead, participating.

I first met John le Carré at Oxford University’s Encaenia garden party in June this year.

By Pankaj Mishra

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Pankaj Mishra’s book From the Ruins of Empire is perhaps the most important book in a long time, for India in particular, and Asia in general, as we choose our foreign and economic/industrialisation policies for a new era.

India’s lone uranium enrichment facility at Rattehalli, near Mysore, may become the target of the gravest act of cyberwar against India to date, attacking no less than its strategic nuclear programme,

As we go to press, authorities in Japan are considering burying the earthquake-and-tsunami-struck Fukushima nuclear power plant in sand and concrete — the ‘Chernobyl Option’ — to save the country’s pe

Cirus, India’s second nuclear reactor, was established with Canadian assistance and US heavy water supplies at the height of the US-Soviet Cold War.

This week, Dr Singh will welcome US President Barack Obama to India, and to a heightened partnership, economic and strategic — no doubt with an increasingly assertive, even aggressive, China on the minds of both men, even if everyone around them denies that that’s the case.