BY: Girish Shahane A joke from the 1980s went, “Sanjay Gandhi advocated family planning and died making a loop.” Indira Gandhi’s younger son was the worst product of the Nehru...

BY: Vijay Prashad E. Ahmet Tonak On Sunday, June 24, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) won both the presidential and the parliamentary elections. The elections...

By: Shiv Visvanathan This is about footage and photographs of two events, like two strips of memory; cuttings from everydayness. One of them, from Hapur in Uttar Pradesh this month,...

By: Shaikh Mujibur Rehman Post-2014,  cow vigilante groups have emerged as the most prominent non-state actors in India in terms of their capacity to unleash violence. They strike at will...

By: Boris Johnson Like architecture and art, the value of some international agreements lies in the eye of the beholder. But no one would seriously question the worth of the...

By: Munir Akram A WEEK ago, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued the first-ever report on human rights in Kashmir. “This is not a conflict frozen in time,”...

By: Amitabh Mattoo Almost every introductory course on contemporary Indian politics begins with a fundamental question: Why did democracy survive and succeed in India (except for the 19 dark months...

By: Andrew Mitrovica Like all the other episodes when memory fails and even a passing understanding of recent history evades America's vast media/political commentariat complex, this latest bout of mass...

By: Joe Macaron Dynamics in the southern front in Syria have reached a tipping point. Russian-Israeli coordination is taking precedence over the ceasefire agreement that US President Donald Trump and...

By: VAPPALA BALACHANDRAN The book is the edited transcripts of “Intel-Dialogue” (Intelligence Dialogue) during 2016-2017 between former ISI Chief Gen.Asad Durrani (1990-92) and the then RAW Secretary A.S.Dulat (1999-2000) at...