'Acting' a President

One Sunday morning in Los Angeles with time on my hands -- after seeing off an Indian delegation on a Saturday, and before a series of meetings on Monday -- I decided to go and visit the Ronald......

25 years on, a slice of the Berlin Wall

On November 9, Germany will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall, which divided West Berlin from the communist East after it was built in 1961, was the......

Mahatma Carter

Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician. Carter bears not a small resemblance to another leader of another large country, who was also in politics but......

Is Trump the plumpest US President in recent times?

The irony is that Trump detests fat people... Donald J Trump is the oldest man to be elected America's president. He turned 70 on June 14, 2016. Ronald Reagan, the next oldest man to be president,......