Prof. M. L. Sondhi

WRITINGS

Articles, Press Statements, Speeches and Reports by Prof. ML Sondhi, classified chronologically and theme-wise.

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INDIAN POLITICS

Articles	Publication	Date Published
Political Transformation in India	Unpublished	Between 1963-1966
THE RANK AND FILE DEMAND: NEW THINKING AND ACTION FOR THE JANA SANGH	Press Statement	May 19, 1972
The Dynamics of Student Protest	Motherland, Nagpur Times, Amrita Bazar Patrika, Assam Tribune, Navbharat Times	April 12, 1974
‘NATIONAL ALTERNATIVE’ TO CONGRESS	Assam Tribune ABP Navbharat Times	August 30, 1974 August 30, 1974 August 29, 1974
USE AND MISUSE OF MISA	*INFA Column	November 15, 1974
CONGRESS - C.P.I. RELATIONS	The Tribune	January 15, 1975
OPPOSITION AND GOVERNMENT AND DEMOCRATIC LIFE: Is a scientific outlook helpful?	Political & Business Times	August 1975
JANATA’S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS	The Tribune	September 15, 1977
The Right to Know: The experiment of Index on Censorship	*	??
PUNJAB’S SHATTERED DREAM: The heavy price paid for Indira Gandhi’s Dictatorship	Malayanadu Weekly	July 8, 1984
Consensus is the only Solution	*	1984
BJP No Threat	The Times of India	July 12, 1989
Prescription for the Nineties	The Statesman	January 1, 1990
INDIA AND INERTIA How to Get the Country Moving?	The Statesman	January 23, 1990
THE HINDU BACKLASH	The Statesman	1990
NEW THINKING ON ANTI-GRAFT DRIVE	The Pioneer	February 19, 1996
UNITING CENTRIST FORCES	The Hindustan Times	November 25, 1997
BJP and India's Future	The Hindustan Times	February 26, 1998
Nuclear Security: A challenge for Indian Diplomacy	The Times of India	April 1, 1998
Call for fresh elections?	The Economic Times	April 20, 1999
Vajpayee’s Victory	The Hindustan Times	October 9, 1999
Saffron As Social Science: Question and Answers	The Times of India	November 2, 1999
THE END OF SAFFRON EVOLUTION	The Asian Age	July 25, 2002

INDIAN ECONOMY

Articles	Publication	Date Published
LABOUR SCENE: FOUR VITAL ISSUES	The Tribune	December 7, 1977
SELF-SUPPORTING ECONOMIC GROWTH	*INFA Column	March 1, 1979
Japanese involvement in the Indian Economy Re-examining the experience and blueprint for the future	*
HUMANOMICS & OUR BUDGET	*
Genesis of India’s Economic Reforms	*

INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY

Articles	Publication	Date Published
IMPLEMENTATION OF INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY	*	??
INDIA AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINESE AGGRESSION	International Studies Journal	1964
From Non-alignment to Non-appeasement: A Reconstruction of Indian foreign Policy	Shakti	June 1965
The Conduct of Indian Diplomacy	Shakti	October 1965
National Interest and Our Foreign Policy	Hindustan Times	October 4, 1967
THE NATIONAL BASIS OF FOREIGN POLICY	Shakti	January 1968
Power Realities Facing India	Hindustan Times	Between 1966-1969
TOWARDS REAPPRAISAL OF INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY – I THE GLOBAL SETTING	*INFA Column	July 29, 1971
TOWARDS REAPPRAISAL OF INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY – II The Regional Setting and the Bangla Desh Crisis	*INFA Column
Mr. HAKSAR’S VACUUM DIPLOMACY	*	1971
PARLIAMENT AND INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY	*INFA Column	July 24, 1976
JANATA'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS	The Tribune	September 15, 1977
SOVIET HOPES IN JANATA SET-UP	The Tribune	April 22, 1978
THE WARNING FROM BELGRADE	The Tribune	August 15, 1978
The Future of Indian Foreign Policy after Indira Gandhi	Asia Pacific Community No. 28	1985
Foreign Policy: Hard Choices	The Hindustan Times	February 22, 1989
VP & Foreign Policy	The Hindustan Times	February 8, 1990
RESHAPING INDIA’S AGENDA IN THE UN SYSTEM IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA	India Quarterly	Vol. L111, Nos. 3&4
INDIA'S DITHERING WEST ASIA POLICY	The Pioneer	February 14, 1992
Mr. Narasimha Rao’s Diplomacy towards Sri Lanka: The Way Forward	Unpublished	Between 1992 and 1993
PEACE DIVIDEND: Need to Restructure Foreign Policy	The Statesman	December 21, 1993
NETAJI'S WINNING MODEL	Indian Express	October 22, 1995
A SEAT FOR INDIA	The Hindustan Times	September 18, 1997
ENHANCING INDIA’S LINK WITH IRELAND	The Pioneer	October 18, 1997
THE MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY	*	1998
SECURITY IN PERSPECTIVE	The Hindustan Times	April 24, 1998

INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

Articles	Publication	Date Published
LEARNING TO KNOW PAKISTAN: Theories, difficulties and models with ulterior motives	Shakti	September 1965
KASHMIR: Virus or Symptom? An essay in Indo-Pak Relations	Shakti	October 1965
INDO-PAK DIALOGUE	The Statesman	May 14, 1972
ILLUSIONS AND REALITY	Round Table	April 7, 1974
Pakistan: Need for a Perspective	Shakti International Review	1986
AN INDO-PAK COLLOQUIUM ON THE ‘PUGWASH’ MODEL	*
INDIA’S KASHMIR DIPLOMACY	The Pioneer	November 12, 1997
PAKISTAN’S PROJECTED NUCLEAR BOMB TEST IN CHINA AND BENAZIR’S JEDDAH STATEMENT ON “THE KASHMIR ISSUE”	Unpublished	1998
Ties with Pakistan	The Hindustan Times	January 16, 1999
Coercive Diplomacy: Beyond Deterrence	*	September, 2002

INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS

Articles	Publication	Date Published
INDIA AND NUCLEAR CHINA	Pacific Community	January 1973
PEACE AND DIPLOMACY BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA	Pacific Community	October 1976
China’s Military Build-up – A threat to India and World Peace	Organiser	October 9, 1988
FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF RAJIV’S BEIJING ODYSSEY: POLICY ALTERNATIVES IN SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS	*	1988
IMPLICATIONS OF THE BEIJING SUMMIT	*	1988
SINO-INDIAN DILEMMAS AT THE SUMMIT: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE	*	1988
Outcome of the Sino-Indian Summit at Beijing	Press Statement	1988
India in Political Cul De Sac	The Statesman	16 January 1989
TIME TO RESTRUCTURE INDIA’S CHINA POLICY	Tibetan Review	July 1991
Outcome of the Recent Sino-Indian Summit	Tibetan Review	February 1992

TIBET

Articles	Publication	Date Published
A NEW STRATEGY TOWARDS TIBET	For Private Circulation
Tibet at the United Nations – Fresh Strategies for Indian Diplomacy	Shakti	July 1965
TIBET: The Real Challenge to Indian foreign Policy	Shakti	December 1965
TIBET: PRIORITY FOR INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY	Tibetan Review	June-July 1972
CHINA’S COERCIVE DIPLOMACY	*INFA Column	September 3, 1975
THE FALSE LINKAGE BETWEEN KASHMIR AND TIBET	*	1983
China, the Dalai Lama and the Future of Tibet	Tibetan Review	August 1983
TIBET VIEWED AS A WORLD SYSTEM PROBLEM	*	1987
INDIA SHOULD INSIST ON DEMILITARISATION OF TIBET	Organiser	January 15, 1989
The Return of Tibet to World Politics	Tibetan Review	October 1989
India and Japan and the Future of Tibet: Need for a Coordinated Approach	Tibetan Review	July 1990
Tibet holds the key to Beijing	The Telegraph	January 2, 1992
THE NEED FOR A TIBET LOBBY IN INDIA	Issued by the Tibet Swaraj Committee	January 1992
THE TIBETAN ISSUE IN THE PRESENT GEO-POLITICAL SITUATION	*	1993?

SOUTH ASIA

Articles	Publication	Date Published
REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON BANGLA DESH	*	1971
MUJIB’S TAKEOVER AND THE SUBCONTINENT	The Tribune	February 12, 1975
The ‘Second Revolution’ in Bangladesh and after	Nav Hind Times, Assam Tribune, The Tribune A.B.P.	February 12, 1975 February 13, 1975
Fact Sheet on Pakistan	The Tribune	1986
TIME FOR INDO-SRI LANKAN SUMMIT DIPLOMACY	The Pioneer	March 27, 1992
INDIA MUST APOLOGIES TO THE MUJAHIDEEN	*	1992

INDIA-ISRAEL RELATIONS

Articles	Publication	Date Published
Need to review ties with Israel	The Statesman	August 13, 1991
Pitfalls and Potentialities of the New Diplomacy between India and Israel: The importance of establishing credibility	*	1992
Time for closer ties with Israel	The Pioneer	March 19, 1993
After Bombay: Urgent Need for an India-Israel Summit	*	1993
AN ARIEL VIEW OF INDIA	The Pioneer	August 23, 2003
Indo-Israeli Strategic Cooperation	The Tribune	September 3, 2003

MIDDLE EAST ISSUES

Articles	Publication	Date Published
India’s Role in West Asia	Weekly Round Table	August 5, 1973
Rao must break free from Nehru’s legacy	The Pioneer	January 31, 1992
A task for India, Israel and Syria	The Pioneer	September 24, 1997
Arafat’s search for new legitimacy	The Pioneer	November 22, 1997

INDIA-US RELATIONS

Articles	Publication	Date Published
THE PERILS OF AD HOCISM (on Indo-US relations)	The Hindustan Times	October 9, 1997
Beyond Pokharan: The US has its soft spots	Hindustan Times	July 5, 1998
TOGETHER TOWARDS ‘DEMOCRATIC PEACE’	Sunday Pioneer	March 19, 2000

INDIA-JAPAN RELATIONS

Articles	Publication	Date Published
NIPPON CALLING	Observer, New Delhi	December 14, 1991
Making hay under the rising sun	The Pioneer	March 5, 1992

CHINA

Articles	Publication	Date Published
CREEPING END OF THE MAO ERA	Nagpur Times, The Mail, Navhind	October 14, 1975 October 17, 1975 Oct. 19, 1975
DIFFICULTIES OF FORD’S VISIT TO CHINA	*INFA Column	October 30, 1975

ASIAN ISSUES

Articles	Publication	Date Published
The Asian Dimension of Bangla Desh	*INFA Column	July 5, 1971
VIETNAM DEBACLE: LESSONS FOR ASIA	The Tribune	May 19, 1975
A PESSIMISTIC SCENARIO FOR JAPANESE POLITICS?	*INFA Column	August 12, 1976
US SHOULD INITIATE A ‘HELSINKI’ PROCESS FOR ASIA	Times of India, New Delhi	July 9, 1998

KOREAN PENINSULA

Articles	Publication	Date Published
North Korean Sports Diplomacy	The Hindustan Times	May 17, 1984
JUCHE AND MILITARISM	The Hindustan Times	April, 02, 1985
Role for India: ENDING THE KOREAN CRISIS	*	1994
THE HWANG DEFECTION AND INTER-KOREAN RELATIONS	*
India & tension in Korean peninsula	The Hindustan Times	September 30, 1996
Turbulent North Korea sends shock waves	The Pioneer	March 11, 1997
President Kim Dae Jung’s advent and Indo-Korean ties	The Pioneer	February 28, 1998

NON-PROLIFERATION ISSUES

Articles	Publication	Date Published
SEMINAR ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND FOREIGN POLICY	International Studies Journal Vol. 9, No. 2	October 1967
Global paradigms and the dimensions of Indian security	Weekly Round Table	June 21, 1974
Beyond Non-Proliferation: A Policy for Asia	*
INDIA AND THE FUTURE OF THE NON-PROLIFERATION REGIME	*	1998
INDIA AFTER POKHRAN II	The Hindustan Times	August 13, 1998
N-sanity’ requires a mix of power and responsibility	The Tribune	November 22, 1998

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

Articles	Publication	Date Published
THE COLD WAR – ITS MANIFESTATIONS	International Studies	1964
Yugoslavia & Romania Why they voted the way they did	The Motherland	December 15, 1971
LUSAKA- The Disintegration of Non-alignment	*	1971
SURVEY OF RECENT RESEARCH Historical and Political Studies on Czechoslovakia Since 1948	International Studies	April 1965
CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: REPORT OF A SEMINAR	International Studies	October-December 1976
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE THIRD WORLD AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM	Journal of Pratap Centre of Philosophy	April 1978
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA	*
From Husak to Havel	Mainstream	December 30, 1989
THE STUDY OF THE PEACE DIVIDEND AND NEW DIMENSIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY	*

CO-AUHTORED ARTICLES AND MONOGRAPHS

Articles	Authors	Publication	Date Published
Polycentricism-European Unity – The Chinese Threat A debate on three current issues	Klaus Mehnert, M.L. Sondhi	Shakti	December 1965
A NEW INDIAN STRATEGY FOR BANGLA DESH	M.L. Sondhi and Chaudary A. Mohamad	Statement at International Conference on Bangladesh at IIC, New Delhi	March 3, 1971
A SAARC PARLIAMENT	M.L. Sondhi and Shrikant Paranjpe	Hindustan Times	July 27, 1990
INDIA AND THE UNITED NATIONS: TOWARDS WIDER HORIZONS	Madhuri Santanam Sondhi & M.L. Sondhi	Indian Council of World Affairs
SOVEREIGNTY Vs INTERVENTION	M.L.Sondhi and Shrikant Paranjpe	The Hindustan Times	May 8, 1995
SAARC Parliament and the pursuit of Stable peace in South Asia	M.L. Sondhi and Shrikant Paranjpe	*
SAARC Parliament: An Exploration into Approaches for Conflict Management in South Asia	M.L. Sondhi and Shrikant Paranjpe	*
BLUEPRINT FOR A SAARC LEGISLA	M.L. Sondhi and Shrikant Paranjpe	The Asian Age	June 25, 1996
IN PURSUIT OF STABLE PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA	M.L. Sondhi & Shrikant Paranjpe	The Asian Age	June 26, 1996
Punjab, Haryana as Economic engine	M.L. Sondhi & Y.S. Rajan	The Tribune	June 4, 1999
Sino-American Strategies and the Indian Point of Weakness	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	2001
THE DIALOGUE	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	2001
New Lines of Concord	M.L. Sondhi & Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	June 26, 2001
BIRDS OF PREY: Hawks, Kashmir and Indo-Pak reconciliation	M.L. Sondhi & Ashok Kapur	*	2001
Part I- WHERE DO WE GO FROM AGRA	M.L. Sondhi & Ashok Kapur	Asian Age	August 6, 2001
Part II- MEA Culpa: Do not blame it on Vajpayee	M.L. Sondhi & Ashok Kapur	Asian Age	August 7, 2001
Turning Pakistan Around by War Measures and Diplomacy	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	2002
THE CAGED DRAGON	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	2002
New Frontiers on the East	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	March 19, 2002
New Strategies for Old Problems	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	June 10, 2002
WAKE UP TO LIFE AFTER SADDAM	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Pioneer	October 3, 2002
A NEW FOCUS ON THE GULF STATES – THINKING POST-SADDAM	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	October 3, 2002
READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD	M.L. Sondhi & Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	October 9, 2002
Suspended belief	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	January 21, 2002
INDIAN OCEAN AREA	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	February 17, 2002
MEANS THAT JUSTIFY THE END	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	July 4, 2002
The inscrutable Chinese	M.L.Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	November 4, 2002
MIND YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S BUSINE	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	December 25, 2002
The Iraq war and its Strategic fallout	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	The Telegraph	2003
FAR EASTERN STRATEGIC TRIANGLES	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	Sent May 13, 2003
LOSING BALANCE?	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	2003
INDIA AS A MODEL FOR IRAQ AND OTHERS	M.L. Sondhi and Arthur Waldron	The Pioneer	April 15, 2003
CHINA: THE EMERGING HEGEMON IN ASIA	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	April 17, 2003
SOFT WORDS ON HARD ISSUES	M.L. Sondhi & Ashok Kapur	Times of India	June 11, 2003
DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST	M.L. Sondhi and Arthur Waldron	*	2003
CHINA-INDIA TALKS: MORE SMOKE AND MIRRORS	M.L. Sondhi and Ashok Kapur	*	June 26, 2003

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters	Publication	Date Published
Dr. Lohia and Indian Parliamentary Revival	Daily Telegraph	1963
IS INDIA SOUTH ASIA’S BULLY?	The Sunday Statesman	April 2, 1989
Gujral should quit	The Pioneer	November 5, 1996
High aims are worthwhile	The Pioneer	October 3, 1997
INDIA BEYOND GUJARAT	The Tribune	April 11, 2002

MISCELLANEOUS

Articles/Reports/Speeches	Publication/Venue	Date Published
ARYA SAMAJ’S ROLE IN PUNJAB	Mainstream	October 13, 1962
Reorienting Indology – the Tibetan Contribution	Shakti	July 1965
SPEECH IN LOK SABHA	Lok Sabha	April 4, 1967
Education For Political Dialogue: Is a Scientific Outlook Helpful	Political & Business Times	August 1975
Talk given under the auspices of course for IAS Probationers		1977
Indian Foreign Policy on the eve of Lusaka: A Plea for Non-appeasement	Unpublished
SEMINAR ON THE CONCEPT OF ENTREPRENEUR		1977
Profile of Vice-Chancellors	*	1981
Index on Censorship	Newstime	February 14, 1984
SOCIAL RE-CONSTRUCTION	Basis for a draft on Social Democracy for the BJP Election Manifesto	October 10, 1984
Hinduism’s Human Face : Resisting Theocratic Pressure	The Statesman	October 9, 1987
Briefing Materials on Should Rajiv Gandhi visit China		November 1988
India Today – The Need for New Thinking	National Thinkers Forum	August 19, 1989
THE HINDU BACKLASH	The Statesman	1990
S&T POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A PERSPECTIVE	*
INDIA AND INERTIA How to Get the Country Moving	The Statesman	January 23, 1990
Inter-Religious Dialogues	Parlance	March 1990
HINDU IDENTITY – I Why Nehru Failed in 1962	The Statesman	October 9, 1991
The Life and Message of Swami Vivekananda	Ramakrishna Mission Auditorium, New Delhi on the 131^st Birthday Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda	January 17, 1993
Memorandum to the Prime Minister of India on India’s Responsibility as NAM Chairperson regarding Vietnamese incursions into Thailand	*	1983
Debate: Our Present System of Education only helps to produce Clerks	*
Giani Zail Singh Memorial Lecture: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY	India International Centre	May 5, 2001
Seminar on Minorities of India: Problems & Prospects: Keynote Address	MA Jawaid, KN Jehangir and Shankar Bose (eds.), Minorities of India: Problems and Prospects, (New Delhi, Manak Publications, 2007)	November 23, 2000
A SOLUTION FOR KASHMIR?	Unpublished

NEWSPAPER REPORTS RELATED TO PROF. SONDHI

Reports	Publication	Date Published
Get Rid of Congress and Save Country	Frontier Mail	February 2, 1969
Sondhi urges expansion of Netaji commission	Hindustan Times	October 15, 1970
WEST ASIAN PEACE- SONDHI ADVOCATES INDIAN PARTICIPATION	The Statesman	December 21, 1991
Dharamsala revisited: Shangrila or Sarajevo?	Tibetan Review	July 1994
Israel. Through India’s Eyes	Jewish Exponent	March 14, 1996
‘Congress misrule’ will end, hopes Sondhi	Indian Express	April 14, 1996
Listening to Professor Sondhi in Lahore	The Friday Times	July 25-31, 2003

Edited Report of a ROUNDTABLE ON A NEW POLICY FOR TIBET held at India International Centre, New Delhi on October 3, 1965 under the auspices of the Tibet Swaraj Committee. Click here

Articles in Edited Volumes

“European Peace & Nuclear Arms Control” in The Future of Nuclear Arms Control, (ed. T.T. Poulose, 1982)
Humanism and Politics in “Dignity for All” (ed. George Mathews, 1991)

Journal Articles:

“Third World & the International System” (Indian Philosophical Quarterly, 1976)
“India & Nuclear China” (Pacific Community, 1979)
“Crisis Management in International Politics” (International Studies, 1972)

Monographs:

Alternative Policy Options for Afghanistan
Return of Tibet to World Politics
Israel: New Policy Issues and Options for India
India & Japan in a Changing World
SAARC Parliament and the Pursuit of Stable Peace in South Asia

November 15, 1974

July 5, 1971

August 12, 1976