Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai visited India this week. In his last term as President, Karzai comes with demands that could not only raise eyebrows, but also table challenge to India’s policy on Afghanistan. Karzai’s demands include various weapons and military equipments. However, while the President was in Delhi; a two [...]

It was in 2006-2007 that New Delhi started aggressively planning to reopen old road, water and sea ways that once used to connect northeast India to Southeast Asia. It was seen as a bold step toward realizing what India calls its ‘Look east policy’. The Centre laid stress on opening [...]

It was the fourth anniversary of the UPA 2 or in fact, the ninth anniversary of the UPA (United Progressive Alliance). Nine uninterrupted years of the Congress at the Centre. The anniversary report card and dinner was supposed to be an occasion to celebrate and build on the work done [...]

Another visit by a Chinese leader, another round of tall promises, another episode of shadow games. Perhaps India should take a few lessons from the Tibetans who have seen the real face of the dragon. No amount of talk can build ‘strategic trust’ between the two nations, no amount of [...]

Bahujan Samaj Party’s 82-year-old MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq’s recent walk out of the Lok Sabha while the national song Vande Mataram was being played has kicked up a controversy, as predictable as the act itself. That some Muslims choose to not sing Vande Mataram isn’t a matter of surprise. That [...]

Now that the Pakistan elections have taken place and the results are in, it is important to think about what the country has learnt from this election and the direction it may be heading towards. The Electoral Process How transparent and organised the elections were, depends on where one decides [...]

Sarabjit Singh was an Indian national languishing in a Pakistani jail since 1992, convicted of being a spy. Sanaullah Ranjay was a Pakistani national languishing in an Indian jail since 1999, after being convicted under TADA provisions for having connections with the terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. Sarabjit was attacked brutally [...]

Sikh women listen to a speaker (unseen) as they protest the acquittal of ruling Congress party leader Sajjan Kumar in New Delhi on May 8, 2013. An Indian court acquitted Kumar on April 30, of charges of incited mobs to kill Sikhs during the country’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Photo by [...]

Pakistani Hindus who travelled to India to attend the recent Kumbh Mela have taken shelter in Bijwasan,  south-west Delhi. Though their visas expire on 8 May, they are adamant to stay back in the country.

India’s former foreign secretary and current member of the National Security Advisory Board, Shyam Saran, declared yesterday that even the smallest of nuclear attacks by Pakistan on India would be met with a massive response. This statement is interesting for multiple reasons, not the least of which is from whom it came. [...]

During a match in the 1989 India-Pakistan cricket series, K Srikanth started protesting after he was declared out leg-before-the-wicket. Imran Khan, a tiger in the making, gave him a second chance and called him back to play. But Srikanth was caught behind on the very next ball. Then came the World Cup [...]

I was at the hospital with my ailing father, when news of the eight-story Rana Plaza collapse in Savar, Bangladesh first flashed on the television. While the doctors were writing a prescription as a process of discharging my father, I went for a quick visit to Shahbag (Mancha), in front [...]