Award-winning British author, historian and academic Patrick French, best known for his biography of VS Naipaul, The World Is What It Is, and India: A Portrait, died in London on Thursday after a......
By sacrificing an important component of the right to free speech, we have strengthened the hands of the fundamentalists, the bigots and the publicity-seeking goondas. And of the hate-filled......
'I criticise the interference of the army in politics.''But the people know I am not anti-Pakistan.''Public support is my biggest strength.' IMAGE: Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir. Photograph: Kind......
Khadim Hussain Rizvi is now gone.But the mass appeal of fundamentalism among Pakistan's burgeoning, young, illiterate, unemployed and angry population isn't, observes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Khadim......
'His secularism merely declared the equality of all religions in India under fundamental rights.' It took more than five decades and 100 volumes for the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru......