India’s policy towards Pakistan has fluctuated between bouts of engagement, concession and indifference. The two countries have fought three wars, two of them over the disputed region of Kashmir…

Amitav Ghosh chooses to tell a story that pervades through the seams of reality and fiction, of time and space, of memories and beliefs. The Shadow Lines is Ghosh’s second novel, who has overtime secured his place as one of the India’s most celebrated authors in English…

U.S. established its diplomatic relations with Pakistan for the first time in 1949 during ‘Eisenhower’ administration. America agreed to provide economic and military assistance to Pakistan and latter’s partnership in ‘Baghdad Pact’ during…

The Indian economy at the time of independence showed all the signs of stagnation. About 47% of the population was below the poverty line in 1951.This figure went up in 1964-65, came down and again went up in 1977-78. Presently the World…

I pulled out this book, “Freedom at Midnight” on a dull Friday afternoon just to kill time, hoping that it would put me to sleep soon. But the book completely took me by surprise! It came as a package of niceties about history, religion,…

As the hullabaloo over the 2009 general elections draws to a close and the buoyant UPA government gets back to work, one astounding feature of these elections has been the rise of Dynasty politics. Akin to Bollywood…

It’s only May, and already the Taliban seems to be having a red letter year. Beginning with the attack on the Swat valley and ending, so far, with the news that it is only a hair’s breadth away from taking over Pakistan, it is rapidly …

Ever since on the 14th August, 1947, the Dominion of India was granted independence from the British Crown and declared to be divided into two sovereign nations of India and Pakistan, there have been generally acrimonious relations between the two countries…

It is near time for the General Elections to take place in India, the world’s largest democratic exercise when a nation of over a billion goes to the polls to choose their leaders. After the horrific terrorist attacks that took place…

One of the most controversial democracies of the world, the state of politics in Pakistan makes for an interesting read. From the time it gained independence in 1947, it has been riddled with problems regarding the authority…