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The more enduring images of the night of terror at Akshardham are, actually, more stirring than tragic. My own favourite...

It’s said in New York that the September session of the UN General Assembly is when leaders from the Third...

Imagine, for a moment, that R.K. Sharma, wanted for the murder of Shivani, was not an inspector-general of police in...

When was the last time you saw a telegram? Not an e-mail, not even a telex, but the good old...

Whether Atal Bihari Vajpayee meets him one-on-one or not, US Secretary of State Colin Powell will find New Delhi a...

YOU can say three things with confidence about our governments. First, they believe a crisis is best handled by pretending...

There is this very special Indian trait of reacting with smug superiority to somebody else’s problem saying this could never...

There is one good reason why this cabinet reshuffle was not going to be like the old Kamraj Plan in...

The problem with writing anything about the Ambanis is, you are immediately expected to declare your interest. Which side are...

My favourite nuke story of all times goes back to 1987. Bundled up deep into the anonymity of the wide-bodied...

On ABC ‘Nightline’, one of America’s most watched news programmes last Sunday, Pervez Hoodbhoy, the reputed Pakistani nuclear expert and...