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On becoming president of the US, Donald Trump took a tough line and used harsh and inappropriate language against Pakistan while announcing his Afghanistan Policy. On the other hand, he…
On becoming president of the US, Donald Trump took a tough line and used harsh and inappropriate language against Pakistan while announcing his Afghanistan Policy. On the other hand, he…
After subsisting in a safari park zoo-like condition for nearly twelve weeks, I was filled with a little presumptuous feeling of optimism while taking leave. Although the reason for this…
In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India's rich and poor. The politicians, civil servants and corporate…
THE other day President Donald Trump took away the White House press card of a CNN journalist. The journalist, Jim Acosta, had simply asked Trump why he described as an…
Between Ghalib and Iqbal, we picked Iqbal as our national poet. Iqbal belongs to us more, but in many ways our national situation reflects habits of the great poet from…
The recent elections in five Indian states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram – have somewhat paused the Hindutva tide for the first time since Prime Minister Modi…
India has a new villain. Thanks to the recently released controversial Bollywood movie, ‘Padmaavat’, by director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Alauddin Khilji, a 14th century Muslim king of the Delhi Sultanate,…
The Indian government has finally appointed an ‘interlocutor’ on Kashmir. This is a slight departure of sorts as the BJP government has consistently refused any form of conciliatory engagement with…
One step forward, two steps back. That’s how one can sum up the endless saga of India-Pakistan engagement – in six words. If hopeless romantics like us on both sides,…
Hours after a mechanised harvester chugged through the rice paddy, flames and a thick plume of black smoke rose into the twilight sky in India's northern Haryana state as farmers…