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Guiltless in Guwahati

Assam no longer holds the country to ransom by choking oil supplies or by chanting the mantra of anger and alienation. The old story of the state, the guaranteed front page, has disappeared.

Friends without life-jackets

It was easy to call it Scariana Airways. Ariana, the Afghan national carrier which resumed operations with a flight to New Delhi this week,...

Fear and learning in New York

If you lived in Delhi in November 1984 you'd remember the smell. Particularly if you were a reporter then, driving around a devastated city,...

Here a General, there a General

Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived in Washington on Thursday evening. There wasn't a line acknowledging it in The Washington Post. Pervez Musharraf is landing a...

Indian graffiti

The vanishing act in Shimla The lingering image of the week is not Pervez Musharraf in his black sherwani reciting the oath as president. It...

Chinese food, humble pie

Postcard from the edge — of irrelevance Is this China? Can this be Chinese territory? Is this one more example of the intriguing, inscrutable Chinese?...

Stars and gripes

By the moral logic that countries should withdraw from multilateral organisations whose policy they do not believe in, the US should make a beginning by leaving the United Nations.

The Punjab parable

Upward mobility brings its own unstoppable momentum. Punjab’s return to normalcy post 1984 is pretty good evidence of that.

Watching Generation X in Hindi heartland

The emotion that drove 27-year-old Priyanka Gandhi ahead of the 1999 Lok Sabha elections was no different from what fired her political cousins in Amethi.

The borderline of peace

The latest buzz in the international strategic community at this moment is the idea, put forward by renowned US expert Edward Luttwak, that small...

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.