Putin’s guru calls for ‘pole-to-pole’ India-Russia relations

‘We are rediscovering our Christian roots, and...

Kailash Gahlot joins BJP; rift with AAP started in August

Gahlot joined the BJP a day after...

PM Modi’s global accolades: A story that India must tell better

These accolades have the potential to tell...

K Natwar Singh

Never underestimate the Chinese

I have met dozens of great and famous men, but very few were as impressive and refined as Chou.   I arrived in Peking (not yet...

Never underestimate the Chinese

I have met dozens of great and famous men, but very few were as impressive and refined as Chou.   I arrived in Peking (not yet...

Never underestimate the Chinese

I have met dozens of great and famous men, but very few were as impressive and refined as Chou.   I arrived in Peking (not yet...

Three letters

‘I used to be a hopeless letter writer before, but now I promise improvement’, wrote R.K. Narayan.   In the mid-1930 of the last century, three...

Three letters

‘I used to be a hopeless letter writer before, but now I promise improvement’, wrote R.K. Narayan.   In the mid-1930 of the last century, three...

Three letters

‘I used to be a hopeless letter writer before, but now I promise improvement’, wrote R.K. Narayan.   In the mid-1930 of the last century, three...

A letter from E.M. Forster

I met him at Cambridge in 1952. His impact on me was among the great blessings of my life.   History is being made in the...

A letter from E.M. Forster

I met him at Cambridge in 1952. His impact on me was among the great blessings of my life.   History is being made in the...

A letter from E.M. Forster

I met him at Cambridge in 1952. His impact on me was among the great blessings of my life.   History is being made in the...

Migrant crisis mishandled

Which agency will monitor implementation of Supreme Court order on migrants?   Nothing exposes the mishandling of the migrant crisis than the two paragraphs that made...

Migrant crisis mishandled

Which agency will monitor implementation of Supreme Court order on migrants?   Nothing exposes the mishandling of the migrant crisis than the two paragraphs that made...

Migrant crisis mishandled

Which agency will monitor implementation of Supreme Court order on migrants?   Nothing exposes the mishandling of the migrant crisis than the two paragraphs that made...

India-Nepal dispute must be resolved soon

Without Beijing’s encouragement, PM Oli would not think of antagonising India.  The top priority on the international agenda at the moment must be to combat...

India-Nepal dispute must be resolved soon

Without Beijing’s encouragement, PM Oli would not think of antagonising India.  The top priority on the international agenda at the moment must be to combat...

India-Nepal dispute must be resolved soon

Without Beijing’s encouragement, PM Oli would not think of antagonising India.  The top priority on the international agenda at the moment must be to combat...

Major world problems cannot be set aside

Will America’s anti-China verbal overkill continue? Will China come clean and disclose facts? For the last few months humankind has had only one item on...

Major world problems cannot be set aside

Will America’s anti-China verbal overkill continue? Will China come clean and disclose facts? For the last few months humankind has had only one item on...

Major world problems cannot be set aside

Will America’s anti-China verbal overkill continue? Will China come clean and disclose facts? For the last few months humankind has had only one item on...

Is this the Age of Fear?

What will tomorrow bring? More fear or hope? Hope for whom?   President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his inaugural address in 1933, said the only thing...

Is this the Age of Fear?

What will tomorrow bring? More fear or hope? Hope for whom?   President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his inaugural address in 1933, said the only thing...

Is this the Age of Fear?

What will tomorrow bring? More fear or hope? Hope for whom?   President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his inaugural address in 1933, said the only thing...

Trust bureaucrats to write such regulations

Lockdown three was promulgated because majority states wanted it.   The other day an American doctor said on CNN that coronavirus could last two years in...

Trust bureaucrats to write such regulations

Lockdown three was promulgated because majority states wanted it.   The other day an American doctor said on CNN that coronavirus could last two years in...

Trust bureaucrats to write such regulations

Lockdown three was promulgated because majority states wanted it.   The other day an American doctor said on CNN that coronavirus could last two years in...

My memories of Gopal and Radhakrishnan

Radhakrishnan patted Chairman Mao on his left cheek.  Among the very best biographies written in 20th century was S. Gopal’s of his father, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan....

My memories of Gopal and Radhakrishnan

Radhakrishnan patted Chairman Mao on his left cheek.  Among the very best biographies written in 20th century was S. Gopal’s of his father, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan....

My memories of Gopal and Radhakrishnan

Radhakrishnan patted Chairman Mao on his left cheek.  Among the very best biographies written in 20th century was S. Gopal’s of his father, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan....

Lockdown cannot continue post 3 May

Another lockdown will not go down well. It will lead to anger, frustration, immense financial strain. Has Kalyug arrived? A wholly unexpected deadly health hazard has...

Lockdown cannot continue post 3 May

Another lockdown will not go down well. It will lead to anger, frustration, immense financial strain. Has Kalyug arrived? A wholly unexpected deadly health hazard has...

Lockdown cannot continue post 3 May

Another lockdown will not go down well. It will lead to anger, frustration, immense financial strain. Has Kalyug arrived? A wholly unexpected deadly health hazard has...

Covid-19: Life is changing, will change further

Is humanity trapped by faith, hit by bad luck for its sins (to paraphrase Gandhi)? Human beings are, at the moment, living in acute fear....

Covid-19: Life is changing, will change further

Is humanity trapped by faith, hit by bad luck for its sins (to paraphrase Gandhi)? Human beings are, at the moment, living in acute fear....

Covid-19: Life is changing, will change further

Is humanity trapped by faith, hit by bad luck for its sins (to paraphrase Gandhi)? Human beings are, at the moment, living in acute fear....

Tablighi Jamaat should be banned 

One critic says that the movement has served as a fertile breeding ground for radical Islamic militancy in many countries.   The whole of India had...

Tablighi Jamaat should be banned 

One critic says that the movement has served as a fertile breeding ground for radical Islamic militancy in many countries.   The whole of India had...

Tablighi Jamaat should be banned 

One critic says that the movement has served as a fertile breeding ground for radical Islamic militancy in many countries.   The whole of India had...

PM’s lockdown has so far checked virus spread

  With a few exceptions, the blockade is being enforced. Life has been hugely disrupted, but lives are being saved. The coronavirus shows no sign of...

PM’s lockdown has so far checked virus spread

  With a few exceptions, the blockade is being enforced. Life has been hugely disrupted, but lives are being saved. The coronavirus shows no sign of...

PM’s lockdown has so far checked virus spread

  With a few exceptions, the blockade is being enforced. Life has been hugely disrupted, but lives are being saved. The coronavirus shows no sign of...

World’s worst health crisis in 100 years

Imposition of a voluntary day long curfew a good idea, but almost impossible to implement in rural India.   The coronavirus caught the world unawares. This...

World’s worst health crisis in 100 years

Imposition of a voluntary day long curfew a good idea, but almost impossible to implement in rural India.   The coronavirus caught the world unawares. This...

World’s worst health crisis in 100 years

Imposition of a voluntary day long curfew a good idea, but almost impossible to implement in rural India.   The coronavirus caught the world unawares. This...

Covid-19: Devastation, if not controlled now

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested that the SAARC countries should jointly combat this crisis.   If the coronavirus, Covid-19, is not controlled in the next...

Covid-19: Devastation, if not controlled now

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested that the SAARC countries should jointly combat this crisis.   If the coronavirus, Covid-19, is not controlled in the next...

Covid-19: Devastation, if not controlled now

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested that the SAARC countries should jointly combat this crisis.   If the coronavirus, Covid-19, is not controlled in the next...

Islamic world will hold Delhi riots against us

The Ayatollah cannot be asked to mind his own business. He is respected not only by the Shias but by some Sunni countries too.   Nearly...

Islamic world will hold Delhi riots against us

The Ayatollah cannot be asked to mind his own business. He is respected not only by the Shias but by some Sunni countries too.   Nearly...

Islamic world will hold Delhi riots against us

The Ayatollah cannot be asked to mind his own business. He is respected not only by the Shias but by some Sunni countries too.   Nearly...

Verbally restrained Trump was a surprise

Our PM deserves credit for dealing deftly with an unpredictable individual. President Donald Trump is the sixth US President to pay an official visit to...

Verbally restrained Trump was a surprise

Our PM deserves credit for dealing deftly with an unpredictable individual. President Donald Trump is the sixth US President to pay an official visit to...

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