Israel’s latest provocation is part of a stealthy plan to establish Jewish control over the Al Aqsa mosque area in Jerusalem, the third most revered p

As China steps up its role as the global growth engine, the APEC summit in Beijing opens a new chapter in the geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. an

Patrick Cockburn, in his new book The Jihadis Return, traces the origins of the Islamic State to the U.S.-engineered collapse of the Iraqi state and s

The personal and professional experience of Ranjit Singh Kalha, who has dealt with China for over 12 years, makes his book refreshingly different from

The book gives a graphic description of the miserable lives of prisoners and the blatant violation of human rights by the law enforcers.

The books take the reader to the heart of the Sufi tradition and reveal its little-known musical forms.

The orbiter Rosetta and its lander Philae make a historic cometary mission, despite an unsatisfactory landing.

The appointment of U. Sagayam as the High Court’s Special Officer to probe the illegal mining activities in the State enthuses farmers and activists w

A novel suggestion to find a permanent solution to the problem of water scarcity in Chennai: reshape the face of a mountain.

Producers of polyester fibre allege that the imposition of anti-dumping duties on PTA protects the monopoly in the industry.

Nehru’s pragmatic diplomacy gave a newly independent India a stature in world affairs much above its economic and military power and guided it deftly

For Jawaharlal Nehru, science was an “enzyme of hope”, a romance, a dream, and a constructive way of imagining the nation, which he wanted everyone to

By constituting a new think tank on intellectual property rights and seemingly sidelining the committee it had set up earlier, the government appears

The sterilisation drive that resulted in the death of 13 women in Chhattisgarh points to the flawed targeted-sterilisation programme with focus on wom

The high command’s high-handedness is blamed for G.K. Vasan’s decision to break away from the Congress and set up his own party.

While the E.U, the U.S. and China have announced their new emission reduction targets with much fanfare, these may prove well short of what is require

It is necessary to revive the four key dimensions of Nehru’s vision for a modern nationhood—democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment.

The deification of Nehru was a function of the Congress’ vote politics, but none of his ideas ever worked.

The legacy of both Gandhi and Nehru is by and large negative. India should break with it.

Jawaharlal Nehru’s was the voice that always stood for the larger principle, which was often at odds with the aims of his own party and government.

No other Congress leader had such clarity of vision and determination to combat communalism and establish a secularist state as Nehru. And this legacy

Nehru wrote to his Chief Ministers on the 1st and 15th of each month and he had written 400 letters from 1947 to 1963.

Enduring “institutional prejudice”—this conclusion of a famous inquiry report in the U.K. holds good for India’s minority situation as well.

The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy, which does not promote the export of products that take land away from foodgrain production, must constitute the crux

For Jawaharlal Nehru, science was an “enzyme of hope”, a romance, a dream, and a constructive way of imagining the nation.

Nehru’s diplomacy gave a newly independent India a stature in world affairs much above its economic and military power and guided it deftly in a world

The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy must constitute the crux of any anti-imperialist development plan.

Enduring “institutional prejudice”—this conclusion of a famous inquiry report in the U.K. holds good for India’s minority situation as well.

For everyone interested in India’s contribution to the First World War, David Omissi’s book is a mine of information.