When the French writer Andre Malraux asked Jawaharlal Nehru in 1958 about his greatest difficulty since Independence, Nehru is said to have replied, âCreating a just…
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By now it is clear who attacked Mumbai on 26/11. Contrary to general opinion, it was a wily plot by India itself to malign the good…
By now it is fair to characterise the Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption campaign as the âin-betweenâ movement. In-between because of its curious timing between the World Cup…
In December 2009, soon after completing his first year as Home Minister, P Chidambaram gave an important speech to Intelligence Bureau officials where he proposed radical…
Just before the 2009 Lok Sabha election, Prakash Karat, still strutting with the swagger of the Leftâs largest ever contingent in Parliament, declared before an election…
India and China are doing better at reaching understanding on the ocean waves than the air waves. While their navies are talking to each other, their…
One of the more interesting and revealing comments about the Osama killing this week came from a gushing academic at the French Institute of Foreign Relations…
When the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III died in 1250 without an agreed successor, his empire went into turmoil. Among the first administrative casualties of the…
South American poet Jorges Luis Borges writes in his poem âHappinessâ (La Dicha) that âeverything happens for the first timeâ. âWhosoever embraces a woman is Adam,â…
Revolution is always an easy word to bandy around. Sometimes too easy, and when it suits your ratings, it is easier still. The tricolour is flying…
