Why the China threat story sells in India
It’s the season of China-bashing in India. In bad old socialist days, the ruling party in India was quick to conjure up the “foreign hand” to distract public attention from …
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Taj was a symbol of imperial power
The Taj Mahal was more than a monument of conjugal love built by Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal; it was as much a statement of …
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Killing of Indian soldiers strain Pakistan ties
NEW DELHI/JAMMU (IWN): In an act of cold-blooded savagery reminiscent of atrocities of the 1999 Kargil conflict, Pakistani army troops have brutally killed two Indian soldiers at the Line of Control …
Read MoreRewind to 2008: The Obama Moment
Obama: The Audacity Of Hope From a virtual unknown outside his home state of Illinois to the most powerful man on earth, Barack Obama has come a long way in …
Read MoreAmerica, Oh America
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Author: Mohsin Hamid Publisher: Penguin/Viking Price: Rs 295 Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an incisive portrait of the transformation of a Princeton-educated Pakistani youth with a …
Read MoreAwake, It’s No Satan, It’s Just Salman
Bigots baying for the blood of celebrity novelist and freshly knighted Sir Salman Rushdie, from Iran to Pakistan to Malaysia to Srinagar, are back in business, albeit with a slightly …
Read MoreRamu Gandhi: A Tribute
A Solitary Thinker In Smug, Noisy Times Not many get to choose the place they die in, but knowing Ramachandra Gandhi, one gets an eerie feeling that this peripatetic thinker …
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The Making of the Big Deal
After a thousand visions and revisions, India’s ruling coalition has finally put the intensely debated India-US nuclear deal on fast track. The July 22 trust vote in parliament swung the …
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Why Afghanistan Matters to India
The vehicle-borne suicide bomb attack at the entrance of the Indian embassy in Kabul and the resultant casualties have created a furore in the Indian national security establishment and the …
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Mumbai Attacks An ‘Act Of War’ By Pakistan: Rushdie
It takes an author to cut through rigmarole and long-winded diplomatese and calls a spade a spade. Salman Rushdie, the iconoclastic author of contemporary classics like Midnight’s Children and The …
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