C. Uday Bhaskar

Our own Monty

Major General “Monty” Palit, who was as much at home on the polo-field as he was among his well-thumbed military history books...

Once more with honesty

Kashmir is deemed to be central to the very being of the state in Pakistan’s national discourse.

The elephant and the dragon

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to China from January 13 to 15 is of deep importance...

Pakistan’s heart of darkness

Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has brought into relief the multiple security challenges the country faces.

Hot spot Charsadda

The suicide bomb attack that tragically killed more than 50 people in a mosque in Charsadda near Peshawar...

The pattern in Pakistan’s violence

A motorcycle-borne suicide bomber, who rammed into a bus on Thursday in Sargodha, which houses Pakistan’s largest air....

When communists say let’s talk

The 123 text that will help to ‘operationalise’ the July 18, 2005 civilian nuclear cooperation agreement between India and the US is on hold.

Lal Masjid backlash tests Musharraf

The two separate bomb attacks in Pakistan on Thursday — in Hub, near Karachi, where 26 people were killed...

The quiet soldier

Remembering India’s most distinguished peacekeeper

Iraq, four years after that toppled statue

South Asia, still largely insulated from the fall-out of Iraq, is a stake-holder in the future trajectory of Iraq

It’s not judicious, General

The dramatic and unprecedented “suspension” of Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary by the General Pervez Musharraf on March 9 has a t

Is the peace process now terror-proof?

Pakistan has of late been grappling with suicide bomb attacks, much like Afghanistan

Indian art’s forgotten genius

Benodebehari Mukherjee is a long neglected colossus of contemporary Indian art.

Strategic sub-text of the Iraq verdict

Socio-political Islam is undergoing a shift, with a Shia-dominated Iran and a Shia-majority Iraq

General in the line of fire

The moot question is, will ‘Tricky Mush’ now objectively examine the Indian evidence, or deny and obfuscate

Gandhigiri in the family

It has taken Munnabhai to bring Gandhiji and October 2 back into focus. However, 50 years ago, as children we associated Bapu’s birthday...