Mirwaiz in Pakistan
The Pakistani government invited the leaders of both factions of the Hurriyat in Indian Kashmir to visit because it wanted to know the nuances of the political situation there and…
The Pakistani government invited the leaders of both factions of the Hurriyat in Indian Kashmir to visit because it wanted to know the nuances of the political situation there and…
Indira Gandhi suspended constitutional guarantees and imposed Emergency at midnight on June 25, 1975. This will be discussed yet again on Saturday in seminar halls across India. However, the equally…
Sheikh Hasina’s style of governance has a touch of authoritarianism. Indira Gandhi had the same trait. All eyes in Bangladesh are focused on New Delhi to see if and when…
The comparison between this year’s remarkable Arab uprisings and the recent popular upsurge in India falters in one vital respect: barring the aberration of Indira Gandhi’s emergency in the mid-1970s,…
Four decades ago, 29-year-old Libyan leader Col Muammar Qaddafi was Pakistan’s good friend. He wrote a strong letter, in 1971, upbraiding Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for aggression against Pakistan.…
South Asia has been the most prone to dynastic politics. Ever wondered why 51 percent of all the poor in the world live in South Asia? Dynastic politics is “a succession of rulers from the same family or line”. In North Korea, Kim Jong-il took over the reins of power from his father Kim Il-sung.
Monday marked the 27th year of Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her Sikh bodyguards. It was also the 27th anniversary of the unspeakable massacre of thousands of innocent men, women and…
The Supreme Court of India abandoned the persons who were unlawfully detained in the 1976 A.D.M. Jabalpur case during the draconian emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Judicial activism…
Indira Gandhi conducted India’s first nuclear test in 1974, which she euphemistically called a peaceful nuclear device. If it won her plaudits from fawning Indians it wasn’t evident. By 1975…
June 26 is a black letter day in India’s post colonial history. It marks the suspension of civil liberties, imprisonment of opposition leaders and clamping of press censorship by Indira…