Salman Rushdie was dead right when he described the banning of the Satanic Verses in India nine days after its publication in London as "political football".
Rushdie’s assailant: “My name is legion for we are many”
Why Congress opposed Naval Mutiny which led to August 15?
It is nice to remember the 1946 – Royal Indian Navy Mutiny just a few days before we celebrate our Independence Day. It is not just a neglected event in the history of Independence but one that was suppressed equally by the colonial masters as well as by leaders of the Congress.
Here come the pious: Kerala’s radical turn
The Popular Front of India (PFI) is throwing up a curious test for India’s secularism. In classified central government reports, the PFI is accused of introducing an extremist pan-Islamist movement to India.
Europe is a car with four tyres punctured says Hungary’s Orban
Supposing Liz Truss, one of the two poised to be Britain’s Prime Minister, undertook a field study to buttress her argument that the defining conflict of our time is the one between "democracy and autocracy", which countries, as a random sample, should be included in her itinerary?
How India and US, QUAD members approach Lanka crisis?
Clearly, Sri Lanka falls in India’s sphere of influence. In other words will the strategic attitude toward Sri Lanka be determined by India? Or do American interests supercede Indian interests?
Is there another Cuban missile crisis in the offing?
That Russia was consistently "provoked" has been clear as daylight since 1998 when the US senate voted in favour of NATO expansion.
A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?
The surreal case of a C.I.A. hacker’s revenge
India’s fringe problem: Four propositions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Only India can shape, re-shape and protect its neighborhood by truly deepening its democracy, thereby, embedding it in its civilizational and cultural zone of influence.
Why is India’s successful 1971 Sri Lanka intervention a forgotten story?
In April 1971, known only to a small group, an Indian Frigate sailed to guard the Sri Lankan coastline against "foreign" reinforcements to help the JVP or Sri Lankan National Liberation Front which had virtually taken over the island.