Category: World Affairs

For A 68th Independence Anniversary

“Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. When once gone no gold can buy them back again.” – Motto of the High School, Ramanathpuram, Abdul Kalam

Letter from New Delhi — Pilao, Biryani, Chappati, Samosa

Certain events this year have been sending my mind back to the forties and fifties when I used to put more time into reading novels than was good

Letter from New Delhi

Hollywood star Ben Affleck’s attempt to suppress a story about a slave-owning ancestor of his has caused something of a furore, especially in the US. The information about

The deals contracted in the past week depict such contrasting fates for Greece and Iran. Europe, which owes so much to Greek civilization and its rich legacy of

Depending on one’s age and preferences, whiling away winter evenings can be utterly boring or pleasant. In our modern times, multiple channels on the TV, innumerable websites and

“We have found in our history that we cannot take political and social stability for granted, that economic and democratic development is not an inexorable march towards progress,

And better still, lead by example. As the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did publicly last Sunday 21 June by leading a crowd of nearly 35,000 people in

20 June was World Refugee Day. In this respect, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) highlighted that the number of refugees around the world as a

Anyone of us can be corrupted, according to new laboratory research. But we go on believing that we are honest – fortunately: we sort of reinforce our sanity.

Narendra Modi has learnt that the government must always keep a close ear to the ground so as to be continuously alert to the people’s reaction to government

Letter from New Delhi

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