For the first time on Friday, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao made her disapproval of WikiLeaks -- the secret US cables that have been made public by the whistleblower website -- saying, "privileged communications" should remain like that. While launching the redesigned MEA and Public Diplomacy websites, Rao said there was a civilisational system that "we would all prefer to see the world operate in".

2010 was the year that removed all doubt that cybersecurity is now a geopolitical problem. We learned from diplomatic cables exposed by WikiLeaks that from Europe to the Middle East to China and beyond, Washington is having an even tougher time than we thought getting what it wants.

There hasn't turned out to be any striking difference between what politicians and diplomats say publicly and what they are saying among themselves. Imagine: All the secrets of the U.S. State Department were exposed and not a single person had to resign!

The US has been courting India's soft power in the form of Bollywood as part of its plans to help usher in peace in war-torn Afghanistan and also help promote anti-extremism messages among the large Asian diaspora across the globe.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday the publication of leaked US diplomatic exchanges by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks is hurting diplomacy. "It is unfortunate that these confidential documents have been leaked," Ban said at a news conference in New York.

At a time when nations around the globe are losing ground to extremism, India’s tradition of tolerance and its management of a large and diverse society can be an important learning ground for the world, a U.S. cable from its New Delhi embassy said in 2006.

American journalist Robert Wright is a prize-winning author of books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, and religion and is the co-founder of Bloggingheads.tv, a platform for dialogue.

The American public is highly critical of the recent release of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables on the WikiLeaks Web site and would support the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by U.S. authorities, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. Most of those polled - 68 percent - say the WikiLeaks' exposure of government documents about the State Department and U.S. diplomacy harms the public interest