Agent Provocateur

What is a legitimate killing? And what makes a killing illegitimate? On the face of it, these are not difficult questions to answer. Those w...

We should never ever forget 21 February 1952, the day history was made when cultural nationalism triumphed over Mohammed Ali Jinnah's bo...

Exterminate Maobadi terror now! This picture was taken at the Silda Eastern Frontier Rifles camp in West Midnapore district, West Bengal, af...

This is the photograph of a Taliban commander Abdullah alias Abu Waqas, who was presented before the media in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesda...

Friday has come and gone. Shahrukh Khan’s film, My Name is Khan, has been released in theatres across the country and around the world. The ...

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had promised his people and the Muslim ummah the ‘Islamic Bomb’. He didn’t live to see his promise fulfilled by a thievi...

It matters little to the 70 countries whose representatives met in London last Thursday to discuss the modalities of striking a deal with th...

Nandimarg massacre of Pandits: Even toddlers were not spared by Islamists. Twenty years ago this past week, Hindus were forced to flee Kash...

Mohammed Hamid Ansari, unlike most of his predecessors, is not a politician elevated to the post of Vice-President of India for services ren...

[UPDATE: I had hoped a loyal babu willing to do his master's bidding wouldn't be appointed successor to MK Narayanan. But I was wron...

UPDATE: [Jyoti Basu died on January 17, a week after the following article was written. Obituary writers waxed eloquent on his many achievem...

Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg didn’t quite have native shoppers in mind when he built Kolkata’s New Market in 1874. The Gothic red brick structur...

Google came up with a rather intriguing, if not ingenious, logo for Christmas this year: A stooping date palm decorated with fairy lights st...

On a late spring evening more than a decade ago, some of us had gathered at Pramod Mahajan’s apartment — he hadn’t moved into a Lutyens’ bun...