THERE have been three-and-a-half wars (the little skirmish in the Rann of Kutch counting as half a war) between them (the Pakistanis) and us. Add to that the holocaust of the partition. One would...
International Affairs
Deng Xiaoping: A Senile Ninety? GPD With all his faults, Deng Xiaoping and, because of him, the other leaders of China are the only people in the developing world who are able to hold their own...
A 'Language' Problem GPD The issue raised by Taslima Nasreen's Lajja is, in the last analysis, one of language and not theology. People for whom modernity is essentially a west-of-Khyber phenomenon...
More than the prime minister and the ruling party, it was the media which were determined to present Narasimha Rao
Mahaan Sa Nripatih GPD India's foreign minister thinks that foreign policy has to do with economics. There are others who believe that all politics has to be pedagogy. There are some people in need...
Communalism: Beyond Political Parties GPD The setback possibly suffered by the BJP or the arrest of RSS leaders cannot stop the production of Hindu chauvinist ideology. This process has been going...
Everything in a Name GPD The 14th congress of the Chinese Communist Party had been billed as the congress of reform and change. It has been nothing of the sort. The congress has merely decided to...
Indo-Pak Relations: Getting to the Roots GPD Liberals and secularists in India have almost instinctively banished the reconstruction of the subcontinent from their agenda, thinking that it is a...
The New Jews in Europe GPD THE German historian-philosopher Koselleck had made an interesting point nearly a quarter of a century ago that "all reflection on history on the continent of Europe...
A Room for Mr Faleiro GPD What image do we think we are creating for ourselves? Nations crumble around us. The fundamentalists have killed the president of Algeria. In our own country fundamentalism...
Of Languages, Books and Words GPD There could have been a political campaign against the Rushdie book as a phenomenon, not as she wrong-doing of an individual But when you make ordinary people, an...
Chinese Art of Defiance GPD The Chinese nuclear explosion is an act of defiance of the international distribution of power. THERE are two obviously nice things about Venkataraman 's visit to China...
Religious Pride and Prejudice GPD For the west, the US in particular, the 'fundamentalist' stereotype is not Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, but Libya. And the Islamic world is much too locked in pride...
The Other Devaluation GPD By its decision to bestow the Nehru award upon Helmut Kohl, the German chancellor, the government of India has debased both the award and the memory of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Marx and MacCarthy GPD Marxism-Leninism is now called 'sociology, politics and ideology' in what used to be the Soviet Union, but even that has not saved the jobs of thousands' of university...
