Rewind 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 …
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America, 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 …
Read MoreRamu Gandhi: A Tribute
A Solitary Thinker In Smug, Noisy Times Not many get to choose the place they die in, but knowing Ramachandra Gandhi, one gets an eerie feeling that this peripatetic thinker …
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The Making of the Big Deal
After a thousand visions and revisions, India’s ruling coalition has finally put the intensely debated India-US nuclear deal on fast track. The July 22 trust vote in parliament swung the …
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Why Afghanistan Matters to India
The vehicle-borne suicide bomb attack at the entrance of the Indian embassy in Kabul and the resultant casualties have created a furore in the Indian national security establishment and the …
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Mumbai Attacks An ‘Act Of War’ By Pakistan: Rushdie
It takes an author to cut through rigmarole and long-winded diplomatese and calls a spade a spade. Salman Rushdie, the iconoclastic author of contemporary classics like Midnight’s Children and The …
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India’s 9/11: Mumbai Method And Madness
No other terror attack in India has dominated global media spotlight as the November 26 Mumbai massacre. What caught the world’s eye and sparked unprecedented global outrage was the sheer …
Read MoreNothing But The Whole Truth About Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi, author, academic and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has written a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi that sifts myths and legends from the real man with all his flaws …
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