On June 2, 1953, when young Elizabeth was crowned queen of the U.K., I was just about nineteen. It was big news of course, including in New Delhi, where
One of the best articles on free India’s 75th birthday is this one in the Indian Express by Vikram Patel, professor of global health at Harvard Medical School:
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Reports have appeared in the Indian media of a fast unto death evidently begun in prison by the 56-year-old Kashmiri leader, Yasin Malik. The headline to a story
Now nearly 94, Noam Chomksy, the intellectual giant, is also a famous foe of supremacy, possibly the world’s best-known and most persistent foe. He characterizes what is happening
Was there any other time when so many countries seemed to be skidding downhill simultaneously? Let’s start with some of India’s neighbours. Here is what columnist Zahid Hussain
They say Vladimir Putin wanted to resurrect the Great Russia of real or imagined history, but he has not only damaged Russia’s image in the world, including in nations
The Ukrainians have been more than heroic. Europe seems to have come together in an almost unprecedented way. Striking mercilessly at the helpless among the Ukrainians, Putin seems also to
Has Russia invited another Afghanistan on itself? Is this the beginning of Putin’s decline inside Russia? What is the level of death, destruction, and dislocation in Ukraine? Will Zelensky
For many Indians, Pakistan does not exist. After decades of bemoaning Partition, forgetting Pakistan has become the preferred option. Border incidents may make news, but happenings inside Pakistan are like
These year-end paragraphs ought to contain seasonally appropriate sentences of hope, so let me offer a couple of them. I begin with what one of my correspondents, a gifted
The brutal Dec. 3 killing, in the city of Sialkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province, of Priyantha Kumara, general manager of a garment factory, reminded the world that an inflamed
When we read of the impunity, and sometimes the triumph, that bullies enjoy after intimidating the weak, we feel stabbed in the soul. Raised in the belief that democratic, people-
