It is not for nothing that the Garhwal region of the Himalayas is referred to as deva bhumi, the...

I was shifted to the death-row cell, a place where they kept convicts who had been sentenced to...

As I have noted, Prime Minister Modi likes to practise what American generals call ‘shock and awe’....

Soft Power has moved from being an academic concept to a political buzzword, particularly in the...

The No War Pact correspondence between Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan is interesting for...

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March 26, 1971: Bangladesh, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, declares its independence from Pakistan....

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It is now 24 years since Morarji Desai passed away, on 10 April 1995. The younger generation may not...

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There is something understandably discomforting and yet eerily pleasurable in reading a book on...

Written with lots of love it makes an otherwise mundane cookbook highly readable through it’s...