‘One can only hope that both sides will ensure that while weapons may be primed, fingers are nowhere near the trigger,’ writes Shashi Tharoor.
Beijing knows that with each passing year its relative economic, military and geopolitical strength is growing vis-à-vis India.
As populous as China but far less able to cope with disaster, India has been lucky – so far.
The opposition party was relegated to a distant runner-up in the polls – but the Congress-led United Democratic Front, which secured 19 seats in Kerala, is a look at the future of the party and of India, writes Shashi Tharoor.
The relationship between these giant neighbours should not be seen only through the prism of conflict
The overturning of a British-era law criminalising gay sex is not India modernising – it is returning to the liberal stance shown throughout its mythology and history.
Those who worked with him and those whose lives he touched knew the former United Nations Secretary-General possessed a rare ingredient not always found in successful men – he was a wonderful human being.
The prejudice against homosexuality is a legacy of colonial rule, yet its bigotry has been thoroughly internalised in India.
Many pushing for a Hindu state in India claim much of modern technology – from airplanes to plastic surgery – amounts to intellectual property theft from the faithful some 2,000 years ago.
The Olympics underscore every four years why the fatuous twinning of India with China that was once in vogue (with an Indian minister even coining the term “Chindia”) was always, to put it mildly, premature, writes Shashi Tharoor.