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What makes it even more challenging to understand a personality like Indira Gandhi even 25 years after her passing is...

The sixties have been the most dangerous decade for independent India. It saw two full-scale wars (China 1962, Pakistan 1965),...

China may have recently returned to our headlines at least on some news TV channels and we can argue about...

You have probably seen bigger outpourings of popular grief, and partymen’s sycophancy, following the deaths of many other regional or...

It can be nobody’s case that L.K. Advani lacks political intellect, guile or commitment. For three-and-a-half decades now since he...

Amid all the noise made over Jaswant Singh’s book and his expulsion one statement stands out. It came from Arun...

If the drought, which now threatens to be one of the worst in recent memory, has left you depressed, do...

In a news discussion on Pakistan earlier this week, NDTV’s Prannoy Roy asked me, with a mix of exasperation and...

It is fascinating that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invoked the Vajpayee spirit to seek both inspiration and validation for his...

interactions with Pervez Musharraf during the Agra summit. He says he told Musharraf that if he really wanted to restore...

Two things over the past two weeks underline for us one of the most chronic ailments of the modern Indian...

Let me first state my biases, as one more cricket-crazy Indian, upfront. I am an unabashed admirer of the IPL...