This 1984 article published in TOI by the journalist and author suggests that the attack, timed to provoke Hindu-Sikh tensions, was a cold-blooded strategy intended to alienate Sikhs from mainstream ...

They weren't really protesting against rape, Prem Shankar Jha argues in a persuasive and thought-provoking column in Tuesday's Hindu. They were really protesting extortion. Huh? "Barring a few lapses, ...

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic — this quote by Alberto Moravia, the celebrated Italian anti-fascist author, perfectly encapsulates the perfunctory but necessary ...

Maturity as a nation demands that we swallow the insults (of the West). India should sign the CTBT because it believes in, and stands to gain from, the maintenance of the global non-proliferation ...

If India did expect the US to back Tharoor, one can only hope that it has re-learned the lesson that in international relations there are no friends, only interests. The intellectual life of the city ...