Jyoti Malhotra

New Delhi

Editor-in-Chief at Tribune (India)

Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune @thetribunechd

Articles

Global lessons in realpolitik

1 week ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

THE thing about foreign policy is, that it changes faster than Chandigarh’s fickle weather and you have no idea how to deal with an approaching storm until it bursts over your head. Something like this happened in Kananaskis last week.
Why US is falling for Pakistan’s charms

2 weeks ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

AS many as seven delegations comprising over 40 Indian politicians and former diplomats fanned out across 33 countries over the past two weeks to explain India’s actions against Pakistan during Op Sindoor, but it is Pakistan’s army chief — and now Field Marshal — Gen Asim Munir who has been invited to participate in the US army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington DC on June 14, today.
The Great Game: The train to Naya Kashmir

3 weeks ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

ONE year after the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi in what is now Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, and around the time China was being convulsed in an anti-foreigner uprising that came to be known as the Boxer Rebellion, the Dogra Maharaja Pratap Singh in 1898 actively commissioned British engineers to build a railway line that connected his lands in the Jammu region with the Kashmir valley. The truth is that Lt Governor Manoj Sinha continues to wield much more power than CM Omar Abdullah.
BJP’s baffling silence in Ludhiana West

4 weeks ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

TWENTY days before the Ludhiana West Assembly constituency goes to the polls on June 19, the Punjab BJP is asking two questions. The first is, Ludhiana West where? And the second, Ludhiana West who? The crisis in the party in the state is totally at odds with a juggernaut that has been caterwauling across the country over the last several months and mopping up all the governments it sets its eyes on. Haryana. Maharashtra. Delhi.
Newton’s Third Law in Punjab

4 weeks ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

TWENTY days before the Ludhiana West Assembly constituency goes to the polls on June 19, the Punjab BJP is asking two questions. The first is, Ludhiana West where? And the second, Ludhiana West who? The crisis in the party in the state is totally at odds with a juggernaut that has been caterwauling across the country over the last several months and mopping up all the governments it sets its eyes on. Haryana. Maharashtra. Delhi.
A question of grace, timing in the run-up to global outreach

1 month ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

A certain lack of grace has characterised the run-up to the multi-party parliamentary delegations that have fanned out across several corners of the globe, in an attempt to explain why India carried out punitive strikes across Pakistan in response to the massacre at Pahalgam.
A question of grace, timing in the run-up to global outreach

1 month ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

A certain lack of grace has characterised the run-up to the multi-party parliamentary delegations that have fanned out across several corners of the globe, in an attempt to explain why India carried out punitive strikes across Pakistan in response to the massacre at Pahalgam.
Op Sindoor has drawn red line for Pakistan - The Tribune

1 month ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

Operation Sindoor saw Punjab — the core of the Western Command’s operational area — bearing the brunt of missile and drone attacks launched by Pakistan in response to India carrying out precision strikes on terrorist camps to avenge the Pahalgam massacre in which 25 tourists and a civilian were killed.
From threat to punishment, message to Pak loud and clear: General Katiyar

1 month ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

India has sent a strong message of intent and capability by not just punishing Pakistan's act of terror in Pahalgam with punitive missile strikes in the heart of Pakistan Punjab, but also by successfully calling its nuclear bluff. "By carrying out strikes deep inside Pak, we showed our resolve to strike with impunity at a time and place of our choosing.
Three morals and a Trump story

1 month ago | tribuneindia.com | Jyoti Malhotra

HOURS after India’s Ministry of External Affairs issued a six point-by-point rebuttal on how the US never mediated last week’s India-Pakistan conflict, Donald Trump has insisted, for the sixth time since the conflict began, that he did.