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Monday, November 10, 2025
TopicIndia-Pakistan

Topic: India-Pakistan

Allah and aam aadmi

Pakistani politics is so important for India that we Indians can't be faulted for being obsessed with it. But must we continue to be ignorant and self-servingly patronising about it?

The Sunday Spring

Why a lunch in Delhi and a pilgrimage to Ajmer could achieve more than any summit.

Hype and hyphen

Pakistan wants to rehyphenate US policy in the neighbourhood. Why we must not let ourselves down.

His Af, our Pak

While we build infrastructure in Afghanistan, we must also change our approach to Pakistan, come out of the post-26/11 sulk, and engage with its imperfect democratic establishment.

Our faff-Pak policy

It is time to stop jubilating at the unfolding tragedy in Pakistan. India has to think of becoming a part of the solution.

A new project Pakistan

India must engage with the rest of the world in search for that new creative solution which may, ultimately, be a variant of the earlier one, except Pakistan does not have a Musharraf equivalent.

No first-use options

For five years, our politics has starved our military. Now we're suffering the consequences.

Our pipeline of control

Given the complexities of regional relationships, the issue of India-Pakistan-Iran pipeline needs to be dealt with flexibility, pragmatism as well as hard-headedness.

1965 in 2005

The Pakistani assault in 1965 was brilliant in conception and initiation but all this turned into suicidal stupidity in the euphoria of initial successes.

Lessons of the missile ‘leak’ — pity the soft state

Paranoia, and not supreme, serene self-confidence, is the hallmark of a superpower and India needs to understand that.

On Camera

Moon madness has taken over modern dating. A waning crescent is the best time to ghost

Alongside buying into the grift that is dating apps, the girlies are also installing astrology apps like Astrotalk to investigate the same tired mystery—will he ever text back?

Africa’s blue economy is booming. What it can learn from Asia

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in Africa, offering significant returns on investment for all involved and achieving the continent’s goals for food security, dignified livelihoods and economic growth.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.