Climate change and Delhi
After a number of landmarks - including the heavy victory in the May 2014 polls – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped shape India’s foreign policy by frequent visits to…
‘Modi effect’ gets Delhi working, but reforms prove elusive
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shaken up India's ruling elite in his first 100 days since taking power, but has so far struggled to deliver the bold reforms needed to…
Nawaz’s Delhi escapade
Narendra Modi is India’s second prime minister from Gujarat – the first was Morarji Desai, whose term from 1977 to 1979 marked a turning point in the country’s politics inasmuch…
New political party vows to clean up Delhi government
Wearing white caps and armed with brooms, volunteers of India's fledgling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or the common man's party, are out in strength across the Indian capital. The broom…
A Pakistani in Delhi
On January 6, I nervously landed at the Delhi airport. I say nervously because I wasn’t there as a tourist. I had gone to India as a researcher – to…
As Kabul and Delhi edge closer
It would be like riding the proverbial tiger. If we think we can somehow play the kingmaker and reap the harvest, that would be like Alice in Wonderland. Even the…
A judgment in Delhi
There is no role, in my view, for easy emotions such as nationalist zeal for a journalist, more so if any degree of nationalism is desired or ordained by a…
What’s wrong with Delhi?
Maoists recently killed 40 more people, including security officials, at the same place in Chhattisgarh where some Gandhians had marched for peace earlier. Essential supplies to Manipur continue to be…
Zardari’s Delhi yatra
President Asif Ali Zardari’s one-day private visit to India for an Ajmer pilgrimage was masterfully timed to divert the attention of his people who were beginning to pour out into…
What nations remember
One of the primary goals of any country is to ensure its survivability. Had Pakistan not maintained its robust armed forces, it would have been prey to the Indian assault…
