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
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
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
Are the US, China and India fundamentally different from one another? Not when we realize that in all three countries some get to speak while others can’t be heard.
In a horrified email, a friend refers to a suggestion, in an article she had just read, that Prime Minister Modi’s mention (in the context of lockdown-induced hardships)
I’ve said it before and will say it again: China and India now have a global footprint that imperial Europe never had in its heyday. In size, it even
