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IC 814 Row: What’s In A Name? Just A Reason To Outrage
In light of the controversy over the Netflix series 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack', here is a view on the 1999 hijack and its aftermath.
Kolkata’s own Tahrir Square moment: City of joy turns into city of righteous anger
Seeing the doctors' protests, I wanted to thank the Kolkata Police and the Trinamool Congress government for fanning Kolkata's revolutionary fire in the belly.
16 Vande Bharat Trains Are Waiting to Be Inaugurated. Here’s Why
Signalling woes and a lack of routes add to the woes of the Modi government's flagship railway initiative. New Delhi: It is just as well that Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to inaugurate three Vande Bharat trains when he did because…
Modi’s Ukraine visit is the message
The West wants to win India over — despite its grime, it’s a nation of gritty people
Hasina exits, India’s neighbourhood policy sinks
The family of Sheikh Hasina, the longest-serving prime minister of Bangladesh, has been at the forefront of the political life of that country since its creation in 1971, and even earlier. It is a sad reflection on the politics she pursued…
The roots of Pakistan
Pre-British Hindustan was truly a kaleidoscope of multiple outlooks
Ek Hasina, No Diwane: US ‘democracy promoters’ seem to be unable to see India’s Bangladesh security…
Sheikh Hasina is gone and 'democracy' is back in Bangladesh. Jamaat-e-Islami and its armed student wing, Chhatra Shibir, celebrated in their own style - arson, looting, attacks on minorities, and erasing history by demolishing statues and…
No happy endings for India on Hasina’s road to exit
For now, Delhi will hope that the army chief, a Hasina loyalist, will keep anti-India sentiment in check.
How Hasina joined the ranks of dictators
How could Hasina let Obaidul Quader issue orders to kill those who dared to protest? This could not — cannot — be the work of a student protester, we thought, however angry he was with Bangabandhu’s daughter. Even if she, Sheikh Hasina,…
A Jammu shift in Pakistani strategy
Moving the terror target area is clearly aimed at ‘giving relief’ to Kashmiri population PRIME Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the first train run from Reasi in Jammu region to Baramulla in Kashmir later this month, across…