The writer is a Middle East based columnist.
When the history of these extraordinary times is written, the BJP may go...
The writer is an independent writer and former editor.Some newspapers are...
Amid this deepening darkness of all-round doom and gloom, there is a ray...
A Hindu friend of mine refers to India’s ruling party as the Bharat...
The sale of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, ‘Nineteen...
So the aam aadmi’s ‘jharu’ has swept away the toxic garbage that...
Justice Markandey Katju is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India....
Narendra Modi is in a league of his own. He swept back into power in May...
I have never felt so proud of my country in a long, long time. Led mostly...
“Where do we go from here?” asked a US-based Indian Muslim friend the...
Can a leopard change its spots? Can the saffron clan led by the RSS and...
If the bizarre Ayodhya verdict of India’s Supreme Court is a classic...
Thanks to my solitary existence, I end up spending hours watching...
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a young and upcoming American writer and author of...
Whatever you may think of the BJP and its extended Parivar, they have a...
Indian Muslims fell out of love with the Congress Party, long before...
Salman Khurshid is a man of few words. On rare occasions when he speaks...
Nothing is so prized in politics as a short public memory. As India and...
The Indian judiciary, once known for its independence and integrity, had...
The ghosts of Ayodhya just refuse to go away. They have been kept around, and busy, with great effort and ingenuity. The tragedy has remained as fresh as ever like a deep, festering wound that just...
Recalling the stellar role of the Indian media during the infamous...
Kudos to Narendra Modi and his hefty henchman, Amit Shah. They have...
Who would have thought that five decades after Jawaharlal Nehru’s...
No wonder the Kashmiris are so outraged and feel outright cheated. In the words of Shah Faesal, a young and bright Kashmiri who topped India’s elite civil services examination and gave up a plum...
Last year, and at the beginning of this year, when I exchanged Christmas...
Without a Gandhi at the top, India’s Congress Party is increasingly...
If Donald Trump’s shock election for the world’s most powerful office...
How many Indians today would know that Allama Iqbal, Pakistan’s...
History repeats itself first as a tragedy, then as a farce, argued Marx....
It is amazing how little it takes for the emperor to restitute himself...
Doubtless, the credit for this overwhelming and landslide victory goes to Prime Minister Modi and his doppelganger Amit Shah, the BJP chief and fellow Gujarati. But does this represent a success of...
Some years ago, in response to a piece critiquing the endless US...
Growing up in small-town India, my earliest introduction to English...
The Indian media boasts an illustrious history. Born during the freedom...
‘Frontline’ newsmagazine, from the stable of the ‘Hindu’...
The times, as Bob Dylan would sing, they are a-changin’. That the...
In great Greek tragedies, heroes often suffer from a tragic flaw or fatal...
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. You do not...
It had been, as she put it, New Zealand’s darkest day and Prime...
If Narendra Modi’s BJP romps home to victory in the just announced...
Mulayam Singh Yadav is old school. Craftiest of the lot, not for nothing...
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time, counselled...
Pulwama couldn’t have come at a worse time for all those who believe in...
It is springtime in the Middle East once again. It would be fair to say...
The more things change in India, the more they seem to remain the same....
Barely two months are left before India goes to the polls in what is...
With Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into active politics, the Congress Party...
In his 1905 essay celebrating the joys of reading, Marcel Proust wrote: “With books, there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends – books – it is because we really...
Commenting on US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of Syria...
The storm of abuse and sheer vitriol that greeted Naseeruddin Shah’s...
