

Friday 6 November '09
Why cannot security drills be undertaken efficiently yet humanely?Friday 30 October '09
How the 1965 war endedFriday
23 October '09Indira Gandhi had a foreboding of her own tragic death....Friday
4 September '09The origins of many a war in history remain disputed to this day. The 1965 War between India and Pakistan, however, has the unique...Friday
21 August '09The final round in the fight over the Constitution’s ‘basic structure’Friday
7 August '09In this series, it has already been reported (IE, July 24) that her constant struggle to overcome judicial “hurdles” to bank nationalisation and abolition...Friday
24 July '09On the face of it, bank nationalisation and abolition of privy purses as well as other privileges of princes would appear to be Siamese twins...Friday
10 July '09Three years after the tsunami of criticism over the devaluation of the rupee had driven Indira Gandhi to a policy switch, from pragmatic to populist...Friday
26 June '09Americans of a certain age still remember what they were doing when John F. Kennedy was shot dead.Friday
12 June '09Stealth and secrecy surrounded Indira Gandhi’s decision to devalue the currencyFriday
29 May '09On the day Jawaharlal Nehru passed into history 45 years and two days ago, I was in Pakistan along with some others of the Indian hack pack.Friday
15 May '09The story behind Indira Gandhi’s Pokhran-I decisionFriday
1 May '09Nehru nearly staked his government, and Ambedkar resigned over the Hindu Code BillFriday
17 April '09For Jawaharlal Nehru the road to the first general elections, on which he was very keen...Sunday
12 April '09The story of a man who combined the roles of a modern politician and a maharajaFriday
3 April '09It is impossible fully to comprehend the significant ramifications of the great and successful gamble of India’s first general election...Friday
20 March '09Now that the election fever is mounting by the minute — and political parties are enlivening the scene by breaking up old marriages...Friday
6 March '09How time flies! In four days it would be fifty years since the famous Tibetan revolt that forced the Dalai Lama to flee to India...Friday
20 February '09Those who lived through the brief but brutal border war with China in the high Himalayas in 1962 still remember the trauma it caused.Tuesday
10 February '09Khalid Hasan, who died last week in Washington, where he was the special correspondent of Lahore’s Daily Times and Friday Times....Friday
6 February '09The PM’s heart surgery was an open matter — but it wasn’t always so with heads of stateSunday
1 February '09The Kashmir crisis was more complex than is made out to be by a timely new biography of Sheikh AbdullahFriday
23 January '09Indira Gandhi’s elevation to premiership was surrounded by intrigueFriday
9 January '09When India and Pakistan thrashed their issues out in TashkentFriday
26 December '08While the laws against terrorism, passed after the horrific Mumbai terrorist attack, have been generally welcomed...