Jaswant Singh’s premonitions
One can only wonder what it was that drove a man of such erudition as Jaswant Singh tearfully back into the fold of the BJP – from which he had…
One can only wonder what it was that drove a man of such erudition as Jaswant Singh tearfully back into the fold of the BJP – from which he had…
Jaswant Singh’s book “Jinnah India — Partition Independence” has elicited interesting reviews in Pakistan. They are interesting entirely because of how off the mark they are which shows how little…
Is it possible that Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah and partition should help the subcontinent’s scholars bury the mythology of partition that has been hanging around the South Asian people’s…
PAKISTAN’S military dictator, Ziaul Haq, rejected $400 million in American aid in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan as ‘peanuts’. It was a not-so-subtle dig at then-US president…
THERE’S a time for everything, as the saying goes, which includes canvassing for better ties between India and Pakistan. Their relations since inception have been marked by ups and downs,…
SHOULD a Muslim living in India envy his fellow Muslim living in Pakistan? Is the grass greener on this side of the border? It is an invidious choice — between…
PANDIT Nehru had all the time for Josh Malihabadi, but there was some particular matter he asked the revolutionary poet to consult Maulana Azad on. The two were very different…
These were originally remarks at a recent memorial meeting: a galaxy of Pakistani luminaries have paid truly exceptional tributes to the late Sartaj Aziz Sahib (former finance and foreign minister…
A NEW YEAR’S ritual of decluttering mail threw up some old dispatches from New Delhi to Dawn. A November 2004 piece points to the growing distance between relative agreeableness and reason…
IN the end we have to fight our own battles, be it for democracy or justice or human rights, and with the singular resolve to win them. There isn’t another…