Indo-Pak softening

Saturday 19 July '08

A recent poll shows that at least half of the Indian and Pakistani public is ready to accept a solution where Kashmir is part of neither country.

The shape-shifter

Saturday 5 July '08

After a long and bitter rift, the Samajwadi party might end up saving the Congress from self-destructing over the nuclear deal.

Neighbourly charity

Tuesday 3 June '08

There is no doubt that a vast majority of the people living in India and Pakistan want peace , for a plethora of reasons...

What the world is reading

Monday 19 May '08

An interesting article which compares how China — where an earthquake took place on May 12, 2008...

Ignorance and curiosity

Saturday 17 May '08

When I heard of the hate crime in which a school-going Sikh student’s patka — cloth used by Sikh youth to cover their heads...

The ties that bind

Friday 25 April '08

Observers of the Indo-Pak peace process in general, and the CBM regime in particular, would have come across the term “Kartarpur corridor".

What the world is reading

Monday 21 April '08

Silvio Berlusconi, new Italian PM and leader of the Conservative bloc owes his revival to the economic failures of the Centre-Left Government...

Pakistan open to ‘visa-free’ Sikh pilgrimage

Wednesday 16 April '08

Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gillani has assured a delegation of Sikhs of full support in the maintenance of Sikh shrines.

Leading Words

Friday 8 February '08

In the pause after manic Super Tuesday, a look at what the four leading candidates in the US presidential poll fray say on South Asia. Excerpts from their articles published over the last seven months in the journal Foreign Affairs

Scarves: a long trail

Thursday 31 January '08

Background: Headscarves were first banned in schools and universities in Turkey in 1980 by the armed forces following a coup.

Kenyan cauldron

Thursday 3 January '08

As the new year begins, Africa seems to be slipping into an older mould.

Indians and Pakistanis: same difference

Thursday 20 December '07

Indians and Pakistanis harbour prejudices about each other, while sitting in their respective countries...

A beacon called ‘Punjab’s Santiniketan’

Saturday 8 December '07

In a region where female foeticide is rampant an institution is changing attitudes towards daughters.

Guru of unity

Saturday 24 November '07

November 24 will be like any other Saturday for most Indians. However, gurdwaras everywhere will have a sea of humanity thronging them.