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The writer, an author, former diplomat and is in politics.

All Prime Ministers of India, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, have tried to have closer relations with Pakistan.

India's contradictory Pakistan policy

Our foreign office seems to have adopted it to hide the complete absence of strategic clarity.

14 Jan 2018 12:27 AM IST

The committee comprises of top leaders including party president Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI/File)

2017: The end of BJP's honeymoon period

2017 was thus the year that began with the spell cast by UP, but also the year that ended with the lesson of Gujarat.

31 Dec 2017 1:05 AM IST

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi during an election rally in Nagrota. (Photo: AP)

With new energy, Cong puts up a real fight

The BJP has marginally increased its voteshare percentage, but the Congress too has boosted it by six per cent.

19 Dec 2017 1:31 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

It's time to rethink democratic values

Religion has become a means to deflect attention from what should really matter in a mature democracy, which is...

3 Dec 2017 12:13 AM IST

Indira Gandhi (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Indira: Elegant woman and shrewd politician

As a politician Indira real test came after she lifted the Emergency, and in the ensuing elections in 1977, was...

19 Nov 2017 5:25 AM IST

According to the last World Bank report 2017, Indias ranking improved by just one notch to 130 from a revised rank of 131 previous year.

Not the right time for euphoria

It is also important to juxtapose what the Ease of Doing Business report says with other international assessments.

5 Nov 2017 12:01 AM IST

The opposition accused the government of hypocrisy over Muslim reservation.

It's time for Muslims to embrace liberal opinion

Other Islamic seminaries, and so-called Islamic clerics, have not been lagging behind in their misplaced activism.

22 Oct 2017 12:41 AM IST

Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh: A true Indian

Khushwant Singh (KS), loved to deliberately project an image that would provoke some kinds of people to hate him.

8 Oct 2017 12:58 AM IST

The officer directed a book vendor to stop selling renowned writer Khushwant Singhs novel Women, Sex, Love and Lust, saying that such obscene literature may spoil the future generation. (Photo: File)

Khushwant Singh: A true Indian

Khushwant Singh (KS), loved to deliberately project an image that would provoke some kinds of people to hate him.

8 Oct 2017 12:58 AM IST

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Can Gandhi inspire today's India?

1947 brought us political freedom, but the battle to free ourselves from the colonisation of our mind, is still...

24 Sept 2017 12:07 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indias first PM, is mentioned in the book. The book, Love in the Time of Emergency, is set during the Emergency period (1975-77) imposed by the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.

A democracy run by undemocratic leaders?

The ideology of the political class is to eschew ideology on the altar of self-promotion.

10 Sept 2017 12:19 AM IST

The Supreme Court had on Tuesday set up a nine-judge bench to decide if the contentious issue of right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution. (Photo: PTI/File)

Right to privacy in digital era

Beyond legalese, the court has addressed many larger and fundamental philosophical questions.

27 Aug 2017 12:28 AM IST