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All Writings
Feb 20, 20213 min read
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Call it a diplomat’s lucky day: in Washington in the spring of 2017, I found myself seated next to Jeff Bezos at the Gridiron dinner. The...
Jan 23, 20213 min read
Spies in the cold
Coincidences matter. As the world raced to the end of 2020 like a parched man to an oasis, two news items caught the eye: in Moscow,...
Jan 2, 20214 min read
When the Arctic warms, it will affect sea levels and precipitation patterns globally
In my school geography books, the Arctic was a frozen fastness, the distant domain of polar bears and fur-clad tribes, or the occasional...
Dec 27, 20203 min read
The problems of plenty
And when the snow falls, you’re found in St Moritz With the others of the jet set And you sip your Napoleon brandy But you never get your...
Dec 2, 20204 min read
The other side of the Covid pandemic
When the new dawn breaks, as it inevitably must, it will reveal a tired world. A world in which millions will be struggling to pick up...
Dec 1, 20201 min read
US will have to keep in mind broad strategic ties with India
Though Trump's policy on China is likely to continue, the sharp rhetoric will be missing, says Navtej Sarna, former ambassador to the US...
Nov 23, 20203 min read
When Lords is Not Cricket
Just when we as a nation were wondering how Indian would Kamala Harris be, an Irishman has come forth boldly to throw light on the...
Nov 22, 20205 min read
PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author
PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well...
Nov 7, 20204 min read
Can Trump Afford to Lose?
Giovannino Guareschi, the wry Italian writer who created the Don Camillo series, lived by a personal credo under Nazi persecution – I...
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