K Natwar Singh, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Pak media’s India coverage can be outrageous

TV channels and retired generals and air marshals and self-appointed experts keep stoking the diplomatic fires. One of the constant irritations an Indian diplomat faces...

Time to think of war widows and their children

We should ensure employment for the widows. Their children’s school fees must be paid by the MoD. In the conduct of foreign policy, it often...

Time to think of war widows and their children

We should ensure employment for the widows. Their children’s school fees must be paid by the MoD. In the conduct of foreign policy, it often...

Time to think of war widows and their children

We should ensure employment for the widows. Their children’s school fees must be paid by the MoD. In the conduct of foreign policy, it often...

How Mussolini used Tagore and Gandhi

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the originator of Fascism. He ruled Italy from 1922-1943. His end was gory. He was shot, along with his long...

How Mussolini used Tagore and Gandhi

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the originator of Fascism. He ruled Italy from 1922-1943. His end was gory. He was shot, along with his long...

How Mussolini used Tagore and Gandhi

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the originator of Fascism. He ruled Italy from 1922-1943. His end was gory. He was shot, along with his long...

Pak’s isolation will be short-lived

The Pulwama attack has evoked worldwide condemnation. We cannot afford to lower our guard. Some years ago, a Pakistani friend in England said to me,...

Pak’s isolation will be short-lived

The Pulwama attack has evoked worldwide condemnation. We cannot afford to lower our guard. Some years ago, a Pakistani friend in England said to me,...

Pak’s isolation will be short-lived

The Pulwama attack has evoked worldwide condemnation. We cannot afford to lower our guard. Some years ago, a Pakistani friend in England said to me,...

Thoughts on books recently read

Chinmoy Guha has worked long and diligently to collect the near forgotten letters of two Nobel Laureates. For the past week I have been agonising...

Thoughts on books recently read

Chinmoy Guha has worked long and diligently to collect the near forgotten letters of two Nobel Laureates. For the past week I have been agonising...

Thoughts on books recently read

Chinmoy Guha has worked long and diligently to collect the near forgotten letters of two Nobel Laureates. For the past week I have been agonising...

Without Gandhi, India wouldn’t be independent

He combined his moral grandeur with his political genius in a unique manner. Gandhi was a miracle. Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary falls on 2.10.2019....

Without Gandhi, India wouldn’t be independent

He combined his moral grandeur with his political genius in a unique manner. Gandhi was a miracle. Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary falls on 2.10.2019....

Without Gandhi, India wouldn’t be independent

He combined his moral grandeur with his political genius in a unique manner. Gandhi was a miracle. Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary falls on 2.10.2019....

All about Xi

He has ambitious plans for fulfilling his Chinese Dream and Chinese miracle. Xi’s China is a Marxist dictatorship. Earlier in the week I read an...

All about Xi

He has ambitious plans for fulfilling his Chinese Dream and Chinese miracle. Xi’s China is a Marxist dictatorship. Earlier in the week I read an...

All about Xi

He has ambitious plans for fulfilling his Chinese Dream and Chinese miracle. Xi’s China is a Marxist dictatorship. Earlier in the week I read an...

Nehru’s letter to Kennedy

His messages to the US President make pathetic reading. I have been re-reading B.K. Nehru’s fascinating and absorbing autobiography, Good Guys come Second. It is...

Nehru’s letter to Kennedy

His messages to the US President make pathetic reading. I have been re-reading B.K. Nehru’s fascinating and absorbing autobiography, Good Guys come Second. It is...

Nehru’s letter to Kennedy

His messages to the US President make pathetic reading. I have been re-reading B.K. Nehru’s fascinating and absorbing autobiography, Good Guys come Second. It is...

My memory of Fidel Castro

This week, 60 years ago, Fidel Castro took over as the supreme leader of Cuba, an island in the West Indies. It was discovered...

My memory of Fidel Castro

This week, 60 years ago, Fidel Castro took over as the supreme leader of Cuba, an island in the West Indies. It was discovered...

My memory of Fidel Castro

This week, 60 years ago, Fidel Castro took over as the supreme leader of Cuba, an island in the West Indies. It was discovered...

Read, write books and never be bored

I edited The Legacy of Nehru. Contributors included Bertrand Russell, Clement Attlee, Martin Luther King Jr. Raja Rao, famous for his novels, Kanthapura and The...

Read, write books and never be bored

I edited The Legacy of Nehru. Contributors included Bertrand Russell, Clement Attlee, Martin Luther King Jr. Raja Rao, famous for his novels, Kanthapura and The...

Read, write books and never be bored

I edited The Legacy of Nehru. Contributors included Bertrand Russell, Clement Attlee, Martin Luther King Jr. Raja Rao, famous for his novels, Kanthapura and The...

St. Stephen’s college, 70 years ago

In the Army, Navy, Air Force, Stephenians have attained the highest ranks, also in media establishments. I joined St. Stephen’s in July 1948. I opted...

St. Stephen’s college, 70 years ago

In the Army, Navy, Air Force, Stephenians have attained the highest ranks, also in media establishments. I joined St. Stephen’s in July 1948. I opted...

St. Stephen’s college, 70 years ago

In the Army, Navy, Air Force, Stephenians have attained the highest ranks, also in media establishments. I joined St. Stephen’s in July 1948. I opted...

When Radhakrishnan patted Mao on the cheek

After shaking hands with the almighty Mao, he flouted every rule of protocol. The Chairman was taken aback. Before leaving for Peking in July...

When Radhakrishnan patted Mao on the cheek

After shaking hands with the almighty Mao, he flouted every rule of protocol. The Chairman was taken aback. Before leaving for Peking in July...

When Radhakrishnan patted Mao on the cheek

After shaking hands with the almighty Mao, he flouted every rule of protocol. The Chairman was taken aback. Before leaving for Peking in July...

A funeral fit for a President

Kennedy’s funeral was impeccably organised and brilliantly regulated. What an aura the man had. Watching the funeral services held for President George H.W. Bush earlier...

A funeral fit for a President

Kennedy’s funeral was impeccably organised and brilliantly regulated. What an aura the man had. Watching the funeral services held for President George H.W. Bush earlier...

A funeral fit for a President

Kennedy’s funeral was impeccably organised and brilliantly regulated. What an aura the man had. Watching the funeral services held for President George H.W. Bush earlier...

Nehru used to meet new IFS officers personally

Pakistan needs to shed its Kashmir obsession for the long term normalisation of India-Pakistan relations. The combined ages of the nine oldest surviving members of...

Nehru used to meet new IFS officers personally

Pakistan needs to shed its Kashmir obsession for the long term normalisation of India-Pakistan relations. The combined ages of the nine oldest surviving members of...

Nehru used to meet new IFS officers personally

Pakistan needs to shed its Kashmir obsession for the long term normalisation of India-Pakistan relations. The combined ages of the nine oldest surviving members of...

Guru Nanak: One of ten greatest Indians of all time

He was a saint, scholar, poet, author, guide, revolutionary, who believed in gender equality. I am not a Sikh. My wife is the elder sister...

Guru Nanak: One of ten greatest Indians of all time

He was a saint, scholar, poet, author, guide, revolutionary, who believed in gender equality. I am not a Sikh. My wife is the elder sister...

Guru Nanak: One of ten greatest Indians of all time

He was a saint, scholar, poet, author, guide, revolutionary, who believed in gender equality. I am not a Sikh. My wife is the elder sister...

Confusion in Sri Lanka

SC has clipped Maithripala’s presidential wings, the country has two PMs and a besieged Speaker. The political confusion in Sri Lanka is amazing and disconcerting....

Confusion in Sri Lanka

SC has clipped Maithripala’s presidential wings, the country has two PMs and a besieged Speaker. The political confusion in Sri Lanka is amazing and disconcerting....

Confusion in Sri Lanka

SC has clipped Maithripala’s presidential wings, the country has two PMs and a besieged Speaker. The political confusion in Sri Lanka is amazing and disconcerting....

We can do without the nomenclature epidemic

Renaming cities cannot be national priority. We have far more work to do in the fields of health, education etc. The press conference that President...

We can do without the nomenclature epidemic

Renaming cities cannot be national priority. We have far more work to do in the fields of health, education etc. The press conference that President...

We can do without the nomenclature epidemic

Renaming cities cannot be national priority. We have far more work to do in the fields of health, education etc. The press conference that President...

Of Gandhi, Patel, Nehru and Ambedkar

The history of 20th century India can be summed up around the lives of these significant leaders. The history of 20th century India can be...

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