Every Joint Secretary’s room in the Ministry of External affairs had a neatly folded copy of the International Herald Tribune on the coffee table....

West Indies cricket commentator Tony Cozier’s death last month brings to an end the phase in cricket when the game’s live transmission depended on the...

It would be almost spiteful to walk up to the US ambassador: “Congratulations, you have Donald Trump as President.” Which way would he look? Secretary...

It was like a macabre end to a Chabrol movie. I had returned with images of such aesthetic delight from the Pahela Baishakh festivities in Dhaka that...

We have grown accustomed to receiving greeting cards at the end of the year.That is why BJP stalwart Murli Manohar Joshi’s beautifully inscribed New...

Polarised politics is what pundits were expecting from the party and its principal leader with an eye on polls in key states. But Prime Minister...

The West, with the US always in the vanguard, is wailing and screaming its heart out against the ISIS for the terrible things it has done in Paris and...

If “terrorise” and “polarise” is the name of the game, the message from the Brussels terror attack has been transmitted to Madrid with lightning...

An Urdu aristocracy on its knees was beginning to make adjustments with the new British rulers when Ram Advani arrived in Lucknow. He set up Ram...

Kanhaiya Kumar’s genius as a public speaker is evident from his first speech in JNU on February 11 and the one he made on the campus after returning...

A Donald Trump-Bernie Sanders clash in the US Presidential elections could be God’s Gift to political cinema.Some outlines for a script come to mind:...

Rohith Vemula, a PhD student, focused on the interstellar spaces and Carl Sagan. In a different location, a sewage cleaner looks for live cockroaches...