I know there’s an awful lot happening in the world and you can’t pay attention to everything but sometimes the things we fail to pick up or, even, ignore are both a...
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The process of electing a new Congress president has started. The filing of nominations began yesterday and will continue till the 30th. If there’s more than one cand...
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The death of Queen Elizabeth and the accession of King Charles has, once again, forcefully reminded us that Great Britain, a small island off the coast of Europe, a dec...
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We’ll never know for sure whether Rishi Sunak’s ethnicity and religion played a part in his defeat in the British Conservative Party’s leadership election. Those ...
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Perhaps because so many believe that in due course the Supreme Court will rescind the remission granted to eleven men guilty of raping Bilkis Bano and murdering seven m...
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If anything Ghulam Nabi Azad’s dramatic resignation could push forward a process that maybe underway. I’m referring to the possibility of significant change in the ...
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I’m perplexed and dismayed by the cold indifference with which most of our politicians have responded to the savage attack on Salman Rushdie. In 1988 we were the only...
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Tomorrow India will celebrate 75 years of independence. It’s an occasion to assess our successes and failures as a nation but also to ask what sort of country have we...
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Friday the 5th was the third anniversary of the nullification of Article 370. It’s also the date on which ‘Hamin Ast: A Biography of Article 370’ was published by...
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The fact that Rishi Sunak could be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom is a clear and irrefutable indication of how much that country has changed. But the fac...
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