The splendour of the Republic Day parade cannot be exaggerated. The setting is breathtaking. Heads of state and government seldom...
Most countries have armies, but in Pakistan the army has a country. Had M.A. Jinnah and Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s internal and external image goes up by the month. How does one assess 2022? In my...
I was one among the three billion fans who sat glued to the TV to watch the football World Cup....
‘I do not know why I am writing to you, for we are both busy men and I have no...
He emphasised that the great challenges of the world could not be solved ‘by fighting but by acting together’. At...
After Independence, Menon became India’s first Foreign Secretary. K.P.S. Menon was born in Ottapalom in Kerala in 1898. He got...
Most members were of the view that the war in Ukraine was causing immense human suffering. Leaders of the world’s...
The impartial voter in the midterm elections made sure that Trump should be taken care of by the electoral guillotine....
What was the load capacity of the bridge? Not more than 125 people. In fact there were 400 to 500...
‘No amount of speeches will ever make us fit for self-government. It is only our conduct that will fit us...
Responsibility for the debacle rests with Nehru, V.K. Krishna Menon and Brigadier B.M. Kaul. A melancholy anniversary passed unremembered three...
China is the only P5 country in the UN Security Council which is opposed to India becoming a permanent member...
I have met 21 Nobel Laureates. Pearl Buck, USA; Kawabata Yasunari, Japan; Pablo Neruda, Chile; Nelson Mandela, South Africa; Robert...
Sonia Gandhi is an expert at back seat driving. Can she revive the Congress? No. What a week where the...
‘Lord Louis is, as you know, incorrigible. He is friends with all the wrong sort of people and presumably believes...
At Palam airport, Prince Charles took me aside and said, ‘I would very much like to come again in October...
The Commonwealth Heads of State and Government was held in New Delhi in November 1983. The Prime Minister appointed me...
I met him half a dozen times. His personality was engaging, his determination to change and reform a stagnant USSR...
Not even a couple of dozen Congresspersons would know the names of four Britishers, each of whom became President of...
India of 2022 is spectacularly different from the India of 1947. There is one vital element that has remained active,...
M.D. Nalapat’s book, 75 Years of Indian Foreign Policy: War, Peace and a World Realigned, is riveting, erudite and provocative....
The spirit of Mahatma Gandhi will have conveyed its blessings to this remarkable daughter of India. This has been a...
Broadly speaking, most people assume that Gandhiji did not read books. When he was in a jocular mood he would...
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