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Nov 28, 20213 min read
Inaccuracies abound in ‘Sardar Udham’
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...
Oct 31, 20213 min read
Biden's approval ratings are sliding steeply south
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...
Sep 25, 20213 min read
Shame China without naming it?
Quadrilaterals are generally irregular; the only regular quadrilateral, a square, has all its sides, and all its angles, equal. As in...
Sep 6, 20216 min read
Taliban’s return is the next act of an unending Afghan tragedy
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...
Sep 5, 20213 min read
The many moods of Krishna Menon
Aldwych Street sits like an old-fashioned geometry D on London’s Strand. Down this crescent, the Indian tricolour flutters from its...
Aug 8, 20213 min read
Destroy space to save the earth?
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...
Jul 29, 20213 min read
U.S. and India both want to ensure stability in Afghanistan
The United States and India have a shared interest in Afghanistan — and neither side wants the Taliban to take control of the country by...
Jul 3, 20213 min read
We have no uniform system of public library administration
Development, as it is sometimes interpreted, took a hit in Patna recently. The planned route of a flyover was changed to avoid...
Jul 1, 20215 min read
बाइडेन-पुतिन मुलाकात के बावजूद अनिश्चित हैं अमेरिका-रूस संबंध
पहले किसी को सोललेस किलर यानी निर्मम हत्यारा कहना और फिर उसके साथ चार घंटे बैठकर बातें करना आसान नहीं हो सकता, लेकिन अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति...
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