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Would the horror movie end with any degree of finality or does peace at least look likely to return even if a tad tenuously for now?
One hopes for the sake of diplomatic dignity with which one grew up in Nehru’s India that the stories about denied invitations are untrue.
Donald Trump brings worry for some and hope for others. The variation is evident.
DR Manmohan Singh, who passed away at 92 last week, will be remembered in contrarian ways. As finance minister and as prime minister, he condemned...
IT’S not difficult to suppose that prisoners also celebrate the New Year, including those on death row. With the advent of the means to annihilate...
IN The Beatles’ scheme the pop quartet assigned to themselves, Ringo Starr kept the rhythm on the drums. But it was John Lennon and Paul McCartney,...
“EVERYONE acts every day of their lives,” said Marlon Brando. Think about it. The air hostess acts with her plastic smile. The politician acts with...
THE pendulum of zealotry almost always ushers in intellectual subterfuge in its wake. The lightning, if not spontaneous, takeover of Damascus by...
PRIYANKA Gandhi is the brand new Congress MP being watched with interest and hope. She won the by-election from Wayanad in Kerala with a massive...
IS Donald Trump the Godot the world is waiting for, with apprehension and hope? But Godot, as Samuel Beckett’s 1949 cult play suggests, may not...
WHILE India and Pakistan can and do unfurl their flags in distant territories — say, in a cricket stadium in Sharjah or when they secure a medal at...
ON one of Donald Trump’s last days as lame-duck president in 2020, senior Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi rushed to US military generals to caution...
THERE’S a time for everything, as the saying goes, which includes canvassing for better ties between India and Pakistan. Their relations since...
ELDERLY folks in Muslim families are usually adept at interpreting the istekhara, a way of gleaning divine hints from religious texts to give...
IN more ways than one, the Modi-Trudeau tiff has its origins in a centuries-old peasant struggle being waged in India, from the Mughal times till...
MEMBERS of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) are meeting in Islamabad today to tackle extremely urgent issues, which includes finding...
THE CNN reporter gave a victory cry for his adventures in an active warzone. The headlines said it all. He had travelled with the Israeli air fleet...
PALESTINE and Kashmir have too readily been likened to each other, and to this end, they were mentioned in the same breath last week at the UN —...
A MONTH to the date before Sri Lanka’s Sept 21 presidential polls would elect a firebrand Marxist head of state, and disturb the political...
A STORY one heard from an associate of Urdu poet Firaq Gorakhpuri possibly frames the debate nicely about India’s chief justice, D.Y. Chandrachud,...
INDIA’S home minister says there can’t be any talks with Pakistan until peace comes to Jammu and Kashmir first. It’s not clear if he was...
THE legendary public intellectual and political analyst Abdul Ghafoor Noorani, who passed away at 93 in Mumbai last week, had believed that...
A CURSORY glance at Wikipedia shows that Pakistan has had as close a relationship with Ukraine as India ever had, or possibly better, including...
A 31-YEAR-OLD doctor was raped and murdered in a most gruesome way when she was on her night duty at a Kolkata hospital on Aug 9. She spoke to her...
WE may find a useful clue on Aug 15 to the direction the turbulence-stricken Bangladesh is heading in. Aug 15 marks India’s Independence Day, but...
FOR India’s ruling BJP, what will Aug 5 be most remembered for? It is, of course, the day that Sheikh Hasina Wajed was deposed by a mass uprising...
IN the 1980s, a Bengali demographer had rudely but not inaccurately described four north Indian states as sick by giving them the acronym ‘BIMARU’,...
IT’S a challenging proposition at the best of times to trust Narendra Modi by what he promises to do for anyone. A problem surfaced early in his...