Don’t fight, see 3 Idiots!
Singing and dancing versus kung fu and martial arts? India and China may have been projected as rivals, but where diplomacy stutters, popular culture scores. Iconic Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, …
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The Tata factor
China has lauded Indian industrialist Ratan Tata for playing a “positive” in transforming relations between two Asian giants. “Not long ago, Ratan Tata, the chief of India’s largest private sector …
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Trade blooms, but China threat strong
Fifty years after the 1962 war, India has fashioned a pragmatic model of cooperation with China, placing economics above politics, but it has to bolster its diplomatic game and military …
Read MoreOnly 25 Per Cent Chinese Like India: Survey
In a globally connected world, perceptions of each matter, specially when it comes to more than two billion people of the two rising Asian powers who are often touted as …
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Why the China threat story sells in India
It’s the season of China-bashing in India. In bad old socialist days, the ruling party in India was quick to conjure up the “foreign hand” to distract public attention from …
Read MoreTaj was a symbol of imperial power
The Taj Mahal was more than a monument of conjugal love built by Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal; it was as much a statement of …
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Killing of Indian soldiers strain Pakistan ties
NEW DELHI/JAMMU (IWN): In an act of cold-blooded savagery reminiscent of atrocities of the 1999 Kargil conflict, Pakistani army troops have brutally killed two Indian soldiers at the Line of Control …
Read MoreRewind to 2008: The Obama Moment
Obama: The Audacity Of Hope From a virtual unknown outside his home state of Illinois to the most powerful man on earth, Barack Obama has come a long way in …
Read MoreAmerica, Oh America
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Author: Mohsin Hamid Publisher: Penguin/Viking Price: Rs 295 Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an incisive portrait of the transformation of a Princeton-educated Pakistani youth with a …
Read MoreAwake, It’s No Satan, It’s Just Salman
Bigots baying for the blood of celebrity novelist and freshly knighted Sir Salman Rushdie, from Iran to Pakistan to Malaysia to Srinagar, are back in business, albeit with a slightly …
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