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
Hunting anecdotes are clearly out of place in this age, and serve as nothing more than a sad reminder of a somewhat barbaric past. Especially when they concern the exploits
On the morning of 17 May, Nazir Sabir became the first Pakistani to stand on top of the world. In the bargain, the Hunza native also clinched for himself a
Only in India does a Peoples' Car turn into a status symbol. Where else in the world would a midget of a car like a Maruti be commonly chauffeur-driven?
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
"One can explain India´s weakness by India´s greatness," says Stephen P. Cohen, head of the South Asia Programme at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He
Released from jail on 4 May, Mohammed Yaseen Malik is the charismatic and straight-talking leader of the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), and chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
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
As the Indian cricket writer managed to upgrade his column from the last page to the first, he missed on his way the most important story of his life. Or
The people were to rule, not a foreign or indigenous monarch. This is reflected in the Constitution which begins by taking its authority from, "We the people of India&
