Kuldip Nayar
The tragedy is that Muslims have withdrawn instead of confronting Hindutva with all their force.
Updated 07 Feb, 2018 07:48am
The demolition of the Babri Masjid and the ban on cattle sale for slaughter are two sides of the same coin.
Updated 07 Jun, 2017 09:04am
I saw pain etched on their faces with their meagre belongings bundled on their heads and the fear-stricken children.
Published 08 Aug, 2014 06:13am
India’s interests would have been served better if Sardar Patel, in place of Jawaharlal Nehru, had been the...
Published 07 Nov, 2013 11:24am
NEW DELHI: India’s northeast is the most combustible region. Some 250 ethnic groups are arrayed against one another and New Delhi to fight for their identity, some seeking even an outside-India status.
Published 05 Aug, 2012 03:17am
THE Aligarh Muslim University vice-chancellor has written to the government to provide protection for his...
Published 28 Jan, 2011 12:56am
I LOOK back with nostalgia on the days leading to the foundation of the Indian Republic. Although the constitution...
Published 21 Jan, 2011 12:57am
STATES in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are partly the result of accident and partly of British presence in the...
Published 13 Jan, 2011 08:06pm
MOHAMMAD Ali Jinnah did not want to mix state matters and religion. The forces which are today trying to assert...
Published 07 Jan, 2011 12:49am
NOBEL Laureate Amartya Sen has said at the International Tagore Conference in Kolkata that “a deep political...
Published 30 Dec, 2010 07:25pm
ONE did not have to be an expert on China to anticipate that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to India would be a...
Published 23 Dec, 2010 08:02pm
WHEN the efficacy of the parliamentary system is doubted in a democratic polity, the finger may well be pointed at...
Published 16 Dec, 2010 08:09pm
PAKISTANI Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was recently reminded of his promise to visit New Delhi to resume...
Published 10 Dec, 2010 12:09am
THE voice of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lacked the ring of sincerity. True, she had to defend the...
Published 03 Dec, 2010 02:37am
BIHAR, with its 80 million people, is amongst the most important states in Indian politics. The Jaya Prakash Narayan...
Published 26 Nov, 2010 12:47am
ON his visit to Pakistan in 1999, the then Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee wrote in the visitors` book at...
Published 12 Nov, 2010 01:48am
IT is difficult to predict the verdict of history on the US-India nuclear pact. But what cannot be denied are the...
Published 04 Nov, 2010 07:33pm
I HAVE not been able to make out why the ruling Congress has been inactive when it could have taken the initiative ...
Published 29 Oct, 2010 03:20am
THE judiciary is facing questions about its functioning. It is not only the backlog of cases which horrify people ...
Published 22 Oct, 2010 12:00am
TIMING is an important factor for politicians. If they do not know what should be said and when, they can land...
Published 15 Oct, 2010 12:00am
