Pakistani newspapers, Dawn and The Nation, have shown exemplary courage in letting the country and the world know about the differences of opinion,...

Like nature, politics abhors a vacuum. It is not surprising, therefore, that after several days of uncertainty, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O....

There is an element of desperation skirting the edge of rationality in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's frenetic attempts to ban liquor consumption in...

For the Pakistan army, India’s “surgical strikes” on the jihadi camps across the Line of Control (LoC) have proved its longstanding contention about...

During the Kargil conflict in 1999, India did not cross the Line of Control (LoC). If it has behaved differently, this time, the reason is that...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tryst with moderation has been extended from its angst over “gaurakshaks” (cow vigilantes) to policies on...

Pakistan has ratcheted up its provocative tactics against India, evidently to elicit the threat of a belligerent response so that Islamabad can tell...

Pakistan has ratcheted up its provocative tactics against India, evidently to elicit the threat of a belligerent response so that Islamabad can tell...

Be it Kashmir or Karnataka, poor governance has been responsible for making a bad situation worse.Such administrative lapses are true of minor...

After the failure of the all-party delegation to make any headway in Kashmir because of the refusal of the separatists to talk to the team, it is back...

A Belgian admirer of India's saffron brotherhood, Koenraad Elst, said in his book, "Mahatma Gandhi and His Assassin", that the murder caused a huge...

It is a safe bet that no government will withdraw any of the laws which ostensibly exist to protect the nation from internal and external threats, but...