Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death has occasioned commentary from around the world that alternates between veneration and condemnation. Whatever one's viewpoint, his passing awayrepresents an......
Pakistan's deteriorating security situation, its connection with Islamist militancy, and the implications for the United States and India relations came under focus during a lecture by American......
For most parents in urban India there is no issue that commands their undivided attention as much as choosing which school to send their children to. While it may come as a surprise to some that......
George W Bush's protocol handlers have notified South Block that the American President's deep belief in his born again faith precludes his visiting Mahatma Gandhi's Samadhi at New Delhi's Raj Ghat......
In super-human actions of valour, Havildar Abdul Hamid personally knocked out five tanks over two days, effectively derailing the enemy offensive in the 1965 Indo-Pak War. 'Decades later, I......
Billed as a foreign policy debate, the first face off between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry was notable for its narrow geographical focus. Apart from the Arab-Israeli conflict not......
Last week's election results in India caught virtually everyone unawares.Nearly as surprising was the dramatic drop of 11% in India's leading stock market index, the Bombay Stock Exchange......
India's billion-strong population never fails to elicit a schizophrenic response from the ruling class. Seen from the economic perspective, there is a general consensus that population growth is a......
Among the many heartening changes that caught my attention during a recent trip home was the apparent sovereignty of the consumer. That aspect was underlined and, indeed, blown-up in billboards in......
Sant Singh Chatwal did not exactly bootstrap his way up America's lodging industry by starting at a modest roadside motel, as have so many immigrants. His first fixer-upper hotel was in Manhattan,......