Navtej Sarna

In a recently released teaser video, Nikki Haley—or more fully Nimrata Nikki Haley nee Randhawa—comes across as a forthright fighter. She...

It was October 1945. World War II had just ended. Atomic weapons had been deployed for the first time in history. Millions of lives had...

A friend invariably refers to Trump as Drumpf. I thought it was a nickname inspired by The Smurfs and doused generously with indignation....

A delightful clip on Twitter brightened the autumnal grey beyond my window: Liz Truss arriving for her weekly meeting with King Charles...

The world was still young and fresh, and life was an adventure waiting to unfold. I was not yet 12. A Phillips transistor radio, gifted...

Should five per cent appear too small/ Be thankful I don’t take it all… said the taxman in the famous Beatles number. But then there is...

Time was when Indian diplomats, having done with decades of writing policy notes, cables and speeches, would settle down in their...

A select committee of the US house of representatives has been conducting televised hearings on the January 6, 2021, attack on the...

A Chekhovian drama was recently played out in Delhi. Media reports front-paged flagrant abuse of power by a senior IAS couple right in...

A year-long celebration is under way to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, as she becomes the first British monarch to...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in a stark statement this week, sheared the jargon off the latest report of the Intergovernmental...

As royals go, the duke and duchess of Cambridge are near perfect. Good-looking, assured and alluringly attired, they waft through crowds...

Arvind Kejriwal was recently interviewed by three anchors on a discussion platform regarding his party’s political aspirations in Punjab....

The recent movie Sardar Udham can evoke mixed reactions. On the one hand, Udham Singh’s story needs to be told. In an act of determined...

It was only this January that Donald Trump’s trapeze act through the White House came to an undignified end, as if someone had snipped...

Quadrilaterals are generally irregular; the only regular quadrilateral, a square, has all its sides, and all its angles, equal. As in...

THE NEW GREAT GAME “Now I shall go far and far into the north, playing the Great Game….” —Rudyard Kipling (Kim, 1901) THE EPITHET OF the...

Aldwych Street sits like an old-fashioned geometry D on London’s Strand. Down this crescent, the Indian tricolour flutters from its...

Boys, it is said, will be boys. Not so long ago, Donald Trump boasted to Kim Jong-un that his nuclear button was bigger and more powerful...

Development, as it is sometimes interpreted, took a hit in Patna recently. The planned route of a flyover was changed to avoid...