Biden only complicates it for us
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…
A man of peace
Since my retirement from the army in 1998, I have been working for peace between India and Pakistan. It is during this journey of peace that I had the pleasure…
A handy checklist of fascism
WHILE India’s communists may be grudgingly opening up to the probability, if they ever do, that fascism is knocking hard on India’s doors, a first-time woman MP from West Bengal’s…
Coercive diplomacy
“LET us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate,” president John F. Kennedy famously said in his inaugural address in January 1961. In those wise…
Kashmir solution
NOTHING in Satya Pal Malik’s slender credentials warranted his appointment as the governor of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2018. It is, however, important to analyse his assertions because they…
The return of Jinnah
The current political scene in India has an unnerving resemblance with the situation in the late 1930s when the British still controlled the continent but politics was flapping with ideas…
Hindus, Muslims and colonial blinkers
At a time when Muslims find themselves under siege in India and are being hunted like animals on the benign watch of the BJP government, two brave new books by…
The demon we created
It took yet another militant attack across the border and increasing pressure from outside powers for us to finally act against Masood Azhar and his militant network — although one…
Are we discovering Jaish only now?
Maulana Masood Azhar, founder and leader of Jaish-e-Muhammad – an outfit dedicated to ‘jihad’, the liberation of Kashmir and similar heady stuff – has been one of our more enduring…
Modi’s loyalties
IT was an unprecedented journey; but caused little surprise. On Sept 4, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Nagpur, the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, to present himself before…
