As Modi tries to disown Nehru
A CURSORY glance at Wikipedia shows that Pakistan has had as close a relationship with Ukraine as India ever had, or possibly better, including vital defence ties. In fact, in…
Nehru, Modi and Hindutva
Watching Narendra Modi’s recent marathon performance in the Indian parliament had been a surreal experience. Angry, bitter and vengeful, he did not speak like the confident leader of a party…
Who’s afraid of Nehru’s India?
Dubai eye The writer is a Middle East based columnist. India’s Tehelka magazine has come up with an interesting, if belated, special issue, marking the 50th anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru’s…
Modi, Muzaffarnagar and a Nehruvian hero
Lord Meghnad Desai is aghast at the way the Indian authorities and the Supreme Court have dealt with the alleged molestation case involving Justice AK Ganguly. Joining a television debate…
Decline of the Nehruvian
The spectre of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister and one of the three founders of the Non-Alignment Movement along with Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and Gamal Abdel…
Waters of arbitration
India has recently been escalating its aggressive behaviour against Pakistan on two counts. It has threatened to strike without warning at targets in Pakistan that it believes are responsible for…
Modi jeopardizing lives of 1.7bn people
Ajay Banga, the President of the World Bank, has said the following about Indus Water Treaty: “There is no provision in the treaty to allow for suspension the way it…
Let rivers flow
ON Sept 19, 1960, a momentous agreement was signed in Karachi. India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who had been in power since independence, sat next to the Pakistani president and…
Modi-Sharif accord?
After the Pahalgam attack in Indian occupied Kashmir, border tensions between Pakistan and India have escalated sharply. According to recent reports, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has authorised the Indian…
Belligerent Hindustan
Indians, generally, are peace-loving people. Most Indians from Occupied Kashmir to Kannyakumari passionately subscribe to the Gandhian philosophy of “Ahimsa”, which means, “nonviolence”. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in…
