Category: National Interest

The law of averages catches up with even the best. As it seems to have with a quaintly named star...

Let’s be honest. There is much revulsion in India over the mass slaughter in Peshawar. There is sympathy for Pakistan....

It’s our instinctive reaction: have problem, ban something.It solves nothing, and leaves Indians getting on with life at certainty of...

By the time this week’s INDIA TODAY hits the stands, one thing would have become clearer: whether Narendra Modi is...

While the focus this week has been on Kathmandu and on the Modi-Sharif non-meeting, a landmark foreign policy event has...

Is Narendra Modi a moderniser or a traditionalist? Is he forward-looking or trapped in the past, however glorious? Does he...

In a National Interest published in the winter of 2007 (‘If Modi wins on Sunday’*), I had anticipated the implications...

It is generally accepted wisdom that the Indira Gandhi years were the pinkest in India’s economic history. Also, that her...

But for two assurances, even someone as reckless as me would never dare to use this story to explain the...

In this season of Internet jokes on politics, let me also make a humble contribution. If Chetan Bhagat were to...