India loses way in its neighborhood
ahsanAt a meeting with the president of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at his residence in New Delhi last Friday, the functionaries of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak…
India’s Modi faces an existential choice
By M.K. Bhadrakumar The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules India, has suffered crushing defeat in the provincial elections in the populous northern state of Bihar on the Gangetic plains.…
Minorities in Indian polity
By Kadayam Subramanian The UN Declaration on Minorities, 1992 brings out the need for special attention to the 'national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities'. The Constitution of India, 1950…
Cashing in on the decision to keep US troops in Afghanistan
By Kate Brannen Why Obama dropping his promise to end America's longest war is going to give contractors billions of dollars. In August, the nation's top military officer came to…
How India’s writers are fighting intolerance
By Nilanjana S Roy More than 40 Indian writers have returned their literary awards or written letters of protests in an unprecedented challenge against what they call "rising intolerance and…
Modi’s dream merchants messed up Nepal policies
By M K Bhadrakumar At times one cannot but feel sorry for the Foreign Secretary. Over the years, his has become a thankless job. The incumbent official, S. Jaishankar, is…
India police officers feel targeted for offering evidence against prime minister
By Shashank Bengal One police official saw his promising career flatline and was dogged by minor misconduct charges until he took early retirement this year. One police official saw his…
Inside the MSF hospital in Kunduz
By Andrew Quilty In the muted light of a hazy afternoon, the compound was silent. The graying walls of the outer gates, streaked with vertical mud stains, were largely undamaged,…
An opportunity for US – China cooperation?
By Michael Clarke Michael Auslin has called for a “new realism” in U.S. foreign policy toward China in these pages, one that “begins with an official acceptance that we are…
How Churchill fought the Pashtuns in Pakistan
By Franz-Stefan Gady “Horrible and revolting” that's how 22-year-old British cavalry officer turned war correspondent forThe Daily Telegraph and Pioneer newspapers, Winston Churchill, described in a dispatch what he saw…
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