Lord Ismay, Nato’s first secretary-general, had succinctly outlined the alliance’s purpose: to keep the Soviet Union out of Europe.
19 Dec 2022 9:13 AM
The Iran unrest began in September when 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in the morality police’s custody
05 Dec 2022 12:05 AM
With this ambiguous verdict in hand, Mr Biden doesn't need an endless war in Ukraine to redeem himself
20 Nov 2022 12:10 AM
Had Macaulay manifested himself by some miracle in the Calcutta of the 1950s and 1960s, he would have considered himself a real success
06 Nov 2022 11:04 PM
The minority factor aggravates the problem to an extent that Justice Hemant Gupta of the Supreme Court appears not to have noticed
24 Oct 2022 3:21 AM
Muslims, traditionally a Congress vote bank, began to feel uncomfortable with the Congress. There was a reason
10 Oct 2022 12:00 AM
Gorbachev, as the subsequent years proved, was clearly out of touch with the nation he had set out to transform
09 Sep 2022 12:06 AM
Rushdie and The Satanic Verses will encroach on the world’s attention now and then indefinitely for “political football”
28 Aug 2022 12:15 AM
Instead of August 15, 1947, our Independence Day could well have been June 30, 1948
14 Aug 2022 12:12 AM
The culture of dependence on the former colonial masters to fill our foreign pages is all-pervasive
31 Jul 2022 12:10 AM
In the North, manufactured daily incidents keep communalism on a continuous simmer and folks huddle and wonder what the future portends
20 Jul 2022 7:15 AM
That Russia was consistently 'provoked' has been clear as daylight since 1998 when the US Senate voted in favour of Nato expansion
02 Jul 2022 11:08 PM
Has the RSS & BJP plugged their ears so firmly that Atal Behari Vajpayee’s whisper doesn’t reach them:
17 Jun 2022 1:39 AM
Sadly, the successful intervention has been forgotten, possibly because it was overshadowed by the bigger Bangladesh war that year
30 May 2022 6:58 AM
The re-emergence of Russia with the help of friends who don’t want Western hegemony, is unacceptable to the West
11 May 2022 12:36 AM
Anti-Americanism is a sure-fire electoral trick in a Muslim country that nurses a deep grievance against the US
18 Apr 2022 12:45 AM
The anxiety about China’s rise is now being replaced by something much more complex - the Sino-Russian embrace
31 Mar 2022 11:27 PM
What gave BJP winning numbers was its secular, economic measures — rations, cash, money for housing. Is this not some kind of welfarism?
17 Mar 2022 11:51 PM
As perceptions supersede reality in how international affairs are played today, Ukraine has, as predicted, led to a huge propaganda campaign
04 Mar 2022 3:13 AM
Lata Mangeshkar’s passing away does end an epoch but her music will remain part of the air generations will breathe
21 Feb 2022 6:56 AM