India’s official observance of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence, July 4, 2026, was diplomatically warm but deliberately restrained. Unlike some close US allies such as Britain, France, …
‘Official’ India is exercising utmost restraint. But outside it, it is seething with anger at the way the Donald Trump-led United States is treating it. The pent-up frustration with the …
Days after celebrating 75 years of diplomatic relationship with China, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif participated in an event in Islamabad marking America’s 250th anniversary and “a true and special …
Karnataka’s new Chief Minister D K Shivkumar is said to be worth Rs. 1400 crores and flaunts it in public with a Louis Vuitton scarf and a Cartier watch. The …
“India has a new political superstar – a cockroach,” screams a headline. “Let the cockroach be,” counsels a newspaper editorial. A third one notes, in seeming disbelief, that the ‘metamorphosis’ of …
As leaders of the United States and China met in Beijing last week for a ‘historic’ summit, not far away and not without their knowledge, South Asia is witnessing a …
If gaining independence in 1947 was India’s first coming, then the second was its economic reforms, launched in 1991-92; last week’s outcome of the four assembly elections can be called …
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an anguished Indian poet invoked the “Ma Nishada sloka,” the first verse (Adi Kavya) of Sanskrit literature, uttered spontaneously by Sage Valmiki in grief …
Nothing about the bride or groom matters, goes an Indian saying, if the priest performing the marriage is fed well. War in the drawing room via TV and social media …
How is India taking the Gulf War, taking place next door, but reverberating globally? The question can be asked of any country, but India is special, being the most populous …
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