That the Kashmir question has been revived on global platforms is no longer news, but I have been surprised that even taxi drivers in the US can bring it up.
Who can give a verdict on what is best for Kashmiris? Not, surely, the Kashmiris, who should not be asked the question. They are too personally involved, unable to think
A minister’s unguarded frankness at a New Delhi event that marked the growth of community radio caused major embarrassment to the Modi government at the end of August. Said
Just as Narendra Modi tells his United Arab Emirates hosts that New Delhi’s takeover was meant ‘to end Kashmir’s isolation’, Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders, prevented at
Congressman Tom Suozzi has discovered that Indian-Americans wield clout in the US. O n August 9, Suozzi, a Democrat representing a Long Island constituency on the edge of New
“Aap Hindustaan se hain, na? Beta jaan, aapko yahan koi takleef nahi hone denge. Aap apni padhai kariye aur wapas jaakar apne mulk mein puchiye ki jis Kashmir ko vo
‘With boli, not with goli.’ With words, not with bullets. That’s how New Delhi would deal with the people of Kashmir, Modi solemnly declared from the Red Fort on
I’m typing this in our small home in Urbana, a small campus town in Illinois, the state of Abe Lincoln and Barrack Obama, which along with the somewhat larger
The future will explain the present better than we can. Still, we of the present should make an attempt to understand what’s going on.
Globalization, which was all the
Four American women much in the news, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, first attracted fame when they were elected as Democrats to the House of
Images from Osaka of heads of government hosted there by Japan’s Shinzo Abe were a reminder of the rise of populism in today’s world. Many of these leaders,
More than two weeks after the results, the many who had thought that Modi would be weakened if not defeated are understandably still trying to figure out what happened.
Partha
