WRITINGS ON THE WALL

Guiltless in Guwahati

What do you say when people ask you what difference do you see when you visit Guwahati after five years?...

Friends without life-jackets

On board Ariana: your life in their hands, your country in their heart IT was easy to call it Scariana...

Fear and learning in New York

Some quiet in J&K, few red faces in Pak: shouldn’t we get more out of Sept 11? If you lived...

Here a General, there a General

Everywhere, it’s Musharraf but Vajpayee doesn’t have to feel left out Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived in Washington on Thursday evening....

Indian graffiti

The vanishing act in Shimla The lingering image of the week is not Pervez Musharraf in his black sherwani reciting...

Chinese food, humble pie

Postcard from the edge—of irrelevance Is this China? Can this be Chinese territory? Is this one more example of the...

Stars and gripes

Harvard diary: flavours of the exam season Anybody who said the Indian examination system is oppressive had better come to...

The Punjab parable

In so many years of making a living covering troubled zones there were at least two occasions I was convinced...

The borderline of peace

The latest buzz in the international strategic community at this moment is the idea, put forward by renowned US expert...

Anyone but India

It is a sad confession to make, but it is God’s own truth that the only reason I delayed writing...