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Business News > Mint Authors > Kunal Singh

Kunal Singh

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY KUNAL SINGH

Photo: Ajay Aggarwal/Hindustan Times

Opinion | Revisiting India’s national defence doctrines

4 min read . 03 Sep 2018

Opinion | Why are our batsmen failing so badly

4 min read . 16 Aug 2018

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (centre) in Pokhran after the nuclear tests in 1998. Photo: HT

The making of a strategic stalemate in South Asia

4 min read . 22 May 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) with Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (L) inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on 21 March 2016. Photo: Reuters

Why China is winning in India’s neighbourhood

5 min read . 08 Mar 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani during a joint press briefing at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. A case of ‘deft diplomacy’ is India’s cooperation with Iran on the one hand and its growing relations with Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia on the other.

The utter nonsense called ‘deft diplomacy’

4 min read . 20 Feb 2018

Even if Pakistan has failed to implement its grand strategy of using nuclear weapons as a shield to seize Kashmir, it has nevertheless used the sub-conventional option skilfully to frustrate a much larger conventional power in India. Photo: AFP

Nuclear compellence and South Asia

6 min read . 01 Dec 2017

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani shakes hands with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, on 24 October 2017. Photo: Reuters

Decoding India’s policy choices in Afghanistan

4 min read . 07 Nov 2017

Shyam Saran’s book ‘How India Sees The World: Kautilya To The 21st Century’ is a work of erudition and highly recommended. Photo: Mint

The hard-earned wisdom of a good diplomat

4 min read . 27 Sep 2017

In the speech outlining his administration’s future strategy in Afghanistan, Donald Trump concluded that the US needs “an honourable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made” over the course of last 16 years. Photo: AP

Donald Trump’s Afghanistan strategy deserves a fair chance

7 min read . 24 Aug 2017

China has maintained some presence in roads and dirt tracks existing between Batang La and Doka La for more than a decade. Photo: AFP

China’s road in Doka La is headed for Thimphu

5 min read . 11 Jul 2017

India’s straightforward objective is to create a multipolar Asia by means of balancing China. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Examining the idea of an India-led middle power coalition

7 min read . 12 Jun 2017

Birmingham will host the India vs Pakistan ICC Champions Trophy match on Sunday. India has won all its matches against Pakistan in World Cup as well as the World T20s. Photo: AFP

ICC Champions Trophy 2017: Why India has edge over Pakistan going into Sunday’s match

2 min read . 02 Jun 2017

File photo. Chinese president Xi Jinping speaks during a news conference at the end of the Belt and Road Forum at the Yanqi Lake International Conference Center, Beijing, on 15 May 2017. Photo: AP

Locating China’s Obor in the global development debate

5 min read . 26 May 2017

Donald Trump’s Syria policy is now much closer to what Republican foreign policy hawks would prefer than to his own campaign rhetoric. Photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Donald Trump’s foreign policy may be changing. What should India do?

5 min read . 11 Apr 2017

When it comes to the rights of the individual, the weak Indian state surrenders to mobocracy. Photo: PTI

Indian democracy can do with a weak state, the Indian republic cannot

4 min read . 30 Mar 2017

R. Ashwin is now a wicket-taking machine, so much so that Steve Waugh recently called him ‘the Bradman of bowling’.

Is R Ashwin really the ‘Bradman of bowling’?

6 min read . 16 Mar 2017

Any solution to the India-China border dispute, which requires India trading away any part of Arunachal Pradesh, let alone Tawang, will not pass muster in New Delhi. Photo: AFP

India-China border dispute is here to stay

4 min read . 07 Mar 2017

Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal, co-founders of Flipkart. Photo: Hemant Mishra/ Mint

Future enterprises and shape of the Flipkart, Uber-driven economy

4 min read . 02 Mar 2017

A file photo of Afghan security forces in Kabul. The current situation in Afghanistan is a result of, among other things, the hasty US withdrawal—a decision taken by the Barack Obama administration. Photo: AP

Why the latest peace bid in Afghanistan may fail

4 min read . 15 Feb 2017

The conversations around foreign policy choices are peculiarly missing in Menon’s book. Photo: Sunil Saxena/HT

Examining India’s foreign policy choices

4 min read . 05 Jan 2017