Prime Minister Narendra Modi's phone call to Trump will help restore a degree of sanity to Indian statecraft and diplomacy, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com.......
Nitish 'sent his emissary, Prashant Kishor, to me on five different occasions.''Kishor seemed to indicate that if I were to assure in writing my party's support to the JD-U, the latter would pull......
China is where the action is, and from where new ideas ('String of Pearls', 'One Belt, One Road') emanate.The Belt-and-Road initiative alone is unmatched in its sweeping dimensions, says B S......
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy believes he will be a better Finance Minister than the incumbent Arun Jaitley. "I am an economist. He is a lawyer. How can he be better than me,"......
IMAGE: Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance fighters near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, in 2001. Photograph: Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images 'It was a mission undertaken in darkness in every sense --......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would have his tete-a-tete with Obama in Bali in a surreal setting, says MK Bhadrakumar, and draws comparisonswith the US-China encounter in Honolulu If an occasional......
'I went up to her set, met her and when I met her it was almost like a dream coming true.'It was love at first sight for Boney Kapoor! Sridevi was a very private person who loved nothing better......
'Living in Brazil, I had internalised the football mythology of that country, the way I had learnt Mahabharata stories in my childhood.' 'The tragedy at the Maracana stadium in 1950, when a......