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When Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 British rule had been established firmly in India. After the uprising of 1857, India had pa[...]

A prominent newspaper editor elected to the Lok Sabha routinely joined protests that disrupted proceedings in the House. Asked by [...]

Political grace and experience has made Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh to reconcile with Navjot Singh Sidhu, foisted as part[...]

Thirty years ago in 1991, it was on July 24, Dr Manmohan Singh, as the then Finance Minister, presented his first budget in the Lo[...]

For India, history is poised to repeat itself in Afghanistan, with prospects that appear to be worse than they were when a governm[...]

Two Grand Old Parties (GOPs) the democratic world has known are in doldrums. Donald Trump took the Republican Party to its defeat [...]

Some may think India’s tough diplomatic challenge is dealing with China as it confront on the land border and surrounds it on the [...]

Founding President of Zambia and a true friend of India, Dr Kenneth Kaunda passed away on June 17 at the age of 97. I was fortunat[...]

It was precisely two decades back that Aamir Khan starrer Lagaan raised hopes of an Oscar that were dashed as it lost in the final[...]

Yes, PK should be thanked for expediting a decaying-course of political parties  for some years. With his engagement in seven[...]

When outside powers walk in, however noble their objectives may be, but walk out, leaving a place in a holy mess, people suffer.  [...]

The United States’ decision to quit Afghanistan, inevitable as it has been, and assuming that it will be done by the new deadline [...]

Three beautiful women have rocked the world of the British royal family in the past century and more. There are certainly parallel[...]

When farmers engaged in the ongoing agitation around Delhi and their supporters passionately recite Sahir Ludhianvi, one realises [...]

When Nepal’s embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and some of his communist colleagues performed the unusual duty of praying at[...]

Pakistan’s entertainment industry, going by media reports, is increasingly conscious that political relations with India are unlik[...]

Tuhin Kanti Ghosh, president of the Indian Newspaper Society (1987-88) and Chairman of UNI (1984-86), passed away at his south Cal[...]

The way Pakistan deals with militancy-related cases, their being investigated and tried by its judiciary has striking similarities[...]

What happens when a nation’s parliament is dissolved despite the government enjoying huge majority, when the ruling party splits a[...]

Speculation is rife in Pakistan that ‘selection’ – as the opposition parties have been alleging – of Imran Khan to rule after the [...]

An interesting Whatsapp message doing the rounds“ Americans recently found out that it’s much easier for them to change presidents[...]

It is sad that when India is poised to fight back Covid-19 pandemic with the help of a vaccine it has produced in collaboration wi[...]

I have never been a lawmaker, but am seized by nostalgia now that India’s Parliament Complex is set to go, replaced by another. A [...]

When Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s Communist Party of Nepal (UML) and its alliance partners came to power in 2017 with a [...]

I was on the left of the road to Dacca with the Infantry while my guns were some 250 metres to the right of the road under a Junio[...]

Akhaura having been secured we were then ordered to move towards Brahmanabaria which was some 25 kms North West of our location. W[...]

“Gentlemen only God can stop this war from taking place” said Maj Gen Benjamin Franklin Gonsalves, General-Officer-Commanding of t[...]