Kashmir Dogra raj in KashmirA.G. NOORANIThe RSS’ game in Jammu and Kashmir is to separate Jammu from Kashmir and establish a Hindu-majority State, a move that would call into question India’
An envoy extraordinaryA.G. NOORANIThe past stays relevant, as the publication of the diaries of Ivan Maisky, who was the Soviet Ambassador to Britain from 1932 to 1943, shows.
Essay Betrayal of Indian nationalismA.G. NOORANIMuslims opposed the British rulers. The Sangh Parivar collaborated with them. Who is “anti-national”?
America’s crimeA.G. NOORANIThe book by a former senior leadership analyst with the CIA presents a different picture of Saddam Hussein which is in contrast to his public persona
Essay The privacy rulingA.G. NOORANIThe Supreme Court’s judgment of August 24 puts to rest the doctrine that the Constitution must be read according to the original intention of the fram
India-Pakistan Feuding twinsA.G. NOORANITwo poems that describe the ills that India and Pakistan share—the rise of religious fundamentalism and disappeared persons.
Essay Ansari & ModiA.G. NOORANIPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s farewell address to former Vice President Hamid Ansari not only betrays his own biases but points to the clash of two n
Essay Of Donald Modi & Narendra TrumpA. G. NOORANIThe affinities between Trump and Modi are striking, but none of them bodes well for democracy.
DEMOCRACY Enemies within the systemA.G. NOORANIWe have erected a democratic edifice on feudal ground. But this achievement is now at stake because we have failed to instil in our polity the values
Essay Rape of Article 370A.G. NOORANITo empower New Delhi with collection of taxes on goods and services “with the concurrence of the Government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir” is to s
The Army in KashmirA.G. NOORANIA valuable first-hand account of the start of militancy in the Kashmir valley in 1988-89, showing how the Army’s ruthless high-handed role sent the si
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.