Against the backdrop of a probable military intervention of some sort in Syria by the United States and some other Western powers, Muslims in Muslim-majority countries are still searching for an answe

US President Ba­rack Obama’s success in his re-election bid by a narrow margin gives him four more years in an American environment that is challenging by any standards. Just before he took over as th

By Krishnan Srinivasan

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S. Nihal Singh

Krishnan Srinivasan belongs to that small breed of Indian diplomats who have a hard-headed and non-sentimental view of the country’s interests and policies. He was India’s foreign secretary for a rather brief period of 13 months in 1994-95, but his stint coincided with an eventful period in the country’s, and world’s, history in an era of transformation.

By Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck

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S. Nihal Singh

A first visit to Bhutan is a transforming experience because the beauty of the landscape is the nearest thing to heaven one can conceive of. Much of it remains unspoiled and the hills and meadows and rivers and streams with an abundance of wild flowers are a balm to tired eyes satiated with the eyesores of urban architecture.

S. Nihal Singh

Indian diplomacy, now more than 60 years old, can hold a candle to any in the world. But like in any service, the wheat is often mixed with chaff, and the practice of a so-called B service, to give foreign service roots to a junior level of bureaucrats, has often led to unhappy results.

The longest interaction I have had with Sonia Gandhi was during Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s state visit to France in 1985 during my two-year stint to write a book on Unesco. It was at the Indian ambassador’s official reception for him in

An extract from chapter 11, The Emergency
Vidya Charan Shukla, the scion of a well-known political family from Madhya Pradesh, was given the information and broadcasting portfolio in Indira’s Cabinet after the incumbent, I.K. Gujral, was unceremoniously removed. While