Category: National Interest

In a muddled situation where the bravest psephologist won’t predict anything more than a whole range of uncertainties for this...

Shortly after conducting the Pokharan II tests, the NDA government made two significant announcements. One was a voluntary moratorium on...

One of the more striking observations recorded by Megasthenes, the brilliant chronicler and fellow traveller of Alexander the Great, was...

You’d be surprised to realise how it is much more likely you would get away with saying something entirely facetious...

Much stirring prose has already been written by much better writers on Barack Obama’s victory speech at Chicago, so I...

While the entire nation watches in disgust the deal-making and horse- trading that mark the current turn in our politics,...

Memory may usually play funny games with one’s mind, but sometimes it can be deadly serious. As it was with...

Ever since the Karnataka defeat, the Congress party’s closet-coterie Rajya Sabha warriors have been inventing new excuses. One of these...

How would you describe the electoral contest in Karnataka? Whether it is a two-way or a three-way fight would depend...

Our prime ministers, in fact most of our most important leaders, rarely visit the Northeast. And even when they do,...