The massive China-India confrontation on frozen heights that will get colder and windier by the day confirms that ancient Asian cultures are as incompetent as Western counterparts in resolving
Mr. Prashant Bhushan’s evocation of Gandhi’s 1922 statement before Justice Broomfield was a reminder that the man marching staff in hand for India’s freedom was also, for
Ramachandra Guha for me is more than a gifted historian and commentator. He is a good friend. Which makes it even more important that I comment on the article at
Learning from Covid that life may be enjoyed a day at a time, I rejoice at recent news from three different parts of the world.
One, Israel’s “suspension” (as
Until recent years, it seemed that any clear edge that India possessed over China was in ideology. Economically, China was much stronger. Militarily, although India’s capabilities along the Himalayas
Covid 19, they say, has made the planet nicer for birds and fishes, cleaned our air and rivers, and, in India, pulled the Himalayas closer to watchers on the northern
We have these ideals of creating a just and equitable world. Suppose we get consumed by these thoughts and imagine that the only way for us to reach such a
This article hopes to add to Ashutosh Varshney’s convincing comparison (Indian Express, July 6) of current Indian and American scenes and in particular of African Americans and India’s
Unfolding history often repeats a pattern, and we humans loves simple explanations. 9/11 showed that Muslims constituted the world’s central problem. Nineteen years later, the Covid pandemic has
I was born in a rural village in Nepal about 100 km west of the Indian state of West Bengal. As a teenager, I grew up harbouring a very strong
I was sprawled face down on the snowbound sidewalk in downtown Detroit, nursing my bruised elbow. I had just been ejected from a building where I had gone apartment hunting.
Long after our world farewells Covid-19, and may that moment arrive, a sentence uttered quite close to the virus’s birth is likely to be remembered.
Pronounced on January
