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By Nandita Singh Sitting on a plush cream-coloured couch at his home in Gurugram, Major General Gagandeep Bakshi (retd) adjusts his tie, takes the stem of a delicate teacup in his hand,

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi In the extremes of our tropical climate, every summer seems the worst ever. But the Tamil ‘kathiri’ — literally ‘scissors’, and metaphorically the merciless sun of May-June — is

By Krishna Kumar Had Krishna Sobti, the eminent Hindi novelist, not died this January, she would have renovated our appreciation of the truth about freedom and Partition occurring together. We habitually forget

By Tawfeeq Irshad Mir “I know the value of word; when there was nothing, it was word. To play with words is to strike the strings of violin, to exude the honey

By Ajaz Ashraf On revisiting statements made by leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party during the four days that Mumbai reeled under terror attacks in November 2008, it becomes clear that the

By P.K. Balachandran The prevailing wisdom, backed by opinion polls, is that the April-May parliamentary elections will result in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) emerging as the single

By Amir Suhail Wani Martin Lings, an insightful scholar and a Shakespearian authority, who lately converted to Islam and became Abu Bakar Siraj Ud Din noted, “Poetry is not written with ink

By SHABBIR AARIZ Nature always asks for and extracts a price for having pleasures and enjoying its beauty and to which we too are not an exception. That is exactly the story

By Rajmohan Gandhi Nehru did not obtain 1952’s largest tally. That feat belonged to Ravi Narayan Reddy, the Communist MP from Nalgonda (now in Telangana), who had polled over 3, 00,000 votes.

By Bhushan Parimoo Beyond adorability of the Squirrels around us. The role it plays to preserve and protect the environment overlooked altogether and thereby ignored. Despite of the fact that this species