25th Anniversary of Emergency Rule
Mrs. Gandhi was not the matriarch unwillingly pushed to drastic action. She was inclined dictatorially, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Between June 1975 and January 1977, Indian
AZIZ SIDDIQUI (1934-2000)
A Fatal heart attack on 7 June in Lahore deprived Pakistan of a journalist and human rights activist who was a guide, mentor, and inspiration to so
ALAN BASIL DE LASTIC
For the besieged Christian community in India, there was more bad news last month, although at least this one had nothing do with Hindu fundamentalists. In
The seemingly sedate Kumaon hills in Almora district were witness to some frenzied activity in April and May, when a nongovernmental organisation called Sahayog was on the dock for allegedly
Barely a year after the 'war-like situation' of Kargil between India and Pakistan, ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has stirred up another hornet's nest. Newspapers reported
Khushwant Singh went from Delhi to Karachi in late March to address a seminar on "Peace, Goodwill and Fellowship", organised by Rotary International.
Assalamulaikum! This is a ritual
In the last 15 years of the Tamil-Sinhala conflict, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been prisoners of their militarised, brutalised and violence-driven pursuit for a separate homeland. But
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga´s "war for peace" has gone awry in recent weeks. Stark reality dawned on Colombo only after the 23 April fall of the Elephant
However earnest her intention to end the 17-year-old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga´s strategy of "war for peace" has backfired. Armed with a huge
South Asian´s longest war in Sri Lanka escalated over the course of May to a point where the military balance in the island´s north has shifted dramatically in
