LoC under spotlight
During January and February this year, skirmishes between the border security forces of India and Pakistan on the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir resulted cost the lives of six…
Moment of opportunity
As co-chairs of the Chaophraya dialogue between opinion makers from India and Pakistan, we are encouraged by reports of resumption of the official dialogue between Islamabad and New Delhi, and…
Trifurcation of Kashmir
Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq, chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference-M, did well to denounce earlier in the month the moves of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak…
Pursuing normalcy
The Nawaz government has been in power now for nearly two months. Rather unusually, the prime minister has kept the foreign ministry portfolio to himself, supposedly because it is too…
RSS & Indian democracy
THE Bharatiya Jan Sangh is `the illegitimate child of the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh],` Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said on Jan 5, 1952. The Jan Sangh was set up on…
Treason trial
On June 3, in my column entitled ‘Know your worth, General’, I had suggested that the prime minister follow the instructions given by the Supreme Court and advise the attorney…
India deserves better
Otto von Bismarck described politics as the art of the possible. After months of breathless anticipation and speculation, the BJP has finally thrown its lot behind Narendra Modi, opening the…
In the name of gender
The resignation of Fauzia Kasuri from PTI at her failure to win one of the reserved women’s seats in the National Assembly might look like a purely internal matter for…
A creeping police state
India’s greatest strength is its democracy. If the country has been on the march of progress in the face of a million mutinies and boasts stability and functioning institutions, it…
A patient people’s fury
Gujarat is paying American PR firm, APCO Worldwide, millions of dollars to build and promote Brand Narendra Modi for nothing. It should really be writing those cheques in the name…
