Elie Wiesel: Going behind the veil
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, ‘That’s not it.’ So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, …
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Birthday greetings for Bhutan’s King from India
Reflecting all-weather ties with a country which prefers to measure its national wealth in gross national happiness and is critical to New Delhi’s interests, India has conveyed warm greetings to …
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Gandhi statue to shine outside British parliament
In an ironic twist and a symbol of changed times, Mahatma Gandhi, the man who liberated India from the imperial rule, will have his statue installed at Parliament Square in London.
Moving beyond historical wrongs and in a gesture that underscores robust India-Britain ties, India’s Finance minister Arun Jaitley will be inaugurating the statue in Parliament Square in London on March 12, the 85th anniversary of the day Gandhi launched the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi in 1930.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has justified the decision to install a Gandhi statue alongside Britain’s war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill and South Africa apartheid leader Nelson Mandela saying, “the initiative would lead to Britain cementing its historical connection with India.”
The installation of the statue was announced during British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s visit to India in 2014.
Let youth drive India’s foreign policy and development
There is something touchingly beautiful about youth, with all its high hopes, impossible yearnings and the desire to make and remake your own world. Bliss was in that dawn to …
Read MoreSpring and New Year: Modi wishes China, Korea, Vietnam via tweets
Call it twiplomacy. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent his warm greetings to the people of China, Korea, Vietnam and Mongolia in their native languages as they kick off …
Read MoreYaalon’s Visit and the India-Israel Defence Relationship
Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon is currently visiting India. He is scheduled to inaugurate the Israeli Pavilion at the biennial Aero India 2015 defence and aerospace exhibition at Bengaluru and …
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Donald E. Westlake: Writing begins with language
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing …
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Paul West: Do not burn with gemlike flame
Of course the writer cannot always burn with a hard gemlike flame or a white heat, but it should be possible to be a chubby hot-water bottle, rendering maximum attentiveness …
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Terror summit: We are not at war with Islam, says Obama
Rejecting contrived motions of a Western war with Islam, US President Barack Obama has underlined that no religion is responsible for terrorism and added that people are responsible for violence …
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India’s top diplomat to head on SAARC mission
India’s South Asian diplomacy is set to acquire a renewed momentum during Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar’s planned visit to all SAARC nations in March. Mr Jaishankar, who took charge as …
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