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By Bharat Karnad Rajiv Gandhi “paid the political price…with regard to the Bofors gun. Modi will have to carry the can for this Rafale transaction—a boondoggle in the making … [that] can

By Dr Qaisar AbbasDr Qaisar Abbas Peace between the two South Asian neighbours was on everyone’s mind when Prime Minister Imran Khan recently sent a letter to his Indian counterpart proposing a

By Apoorvanand I have been thinking about the statement defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman made this week lamenting the presence of “anti-national elements” within the student community of her alma mater, Jawaharlal Nehru

By Syed Talat Hussain Like a runaway train, the Imran government continues to hurtle down on the trail of policy bloopers across blunder-land. True, the latest one involving the Indian rebuke and

By K C Singh Imran Khan became Prime Minister of Pakistan with the slogan of “Naya Pakistan”, or New Pakistan. In India, his victory was seen as enabled by the blessings of

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi They are becoming a rarity, walking sticks are. And by walking sticks I mean, of course, those good old lengths of wood, the gift of trees, groves, forests. The

By Hindol Sengupta Gandhi and Nehru both advised Bose not to contest again [for Congress presidentship in 1939]. Patel and Gandhi tried hard to convince [AbulKalam] Azad to take on the role

By Rachel Carnell Bob Woodward’s new book, seems to contain scant new information. Like Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, it portrays President Donald Trump as an “emotionally

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr There is really no need imagine or interpret the message of the September 17-19 event of the RashtriyaSwayamsevakSangh (RSS) at VigyanBhavan, where by and large only functions

By Pratap Bhanu Mehta There are once again murmurings of a possible global economic turbulence in the air. Whether these forebodings will transpire is a matter for economists to debate. But it