King Charles's coronation: The crown comes with challenges
On May 6, as King Charles III and Queen Camilla are crowned in all their finery at Westminster Abbey, over a thousand people, dressed in...
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- May 5
- 5 min
A Passage to India
AMBASSADORS, CONTRARY TO general opinion, can often lead fraught lives. Behind the curtain of glamour and ceremony, they are constantly...
- Apr 23
- 3 min
How Punjab is becoming an old age home
Mr Bains, a kindly 90-year-old retired customs officer, hosted us last month at his home amidst mango orchards outside Gurdaspur. Alone,...
- Mar 26
- 3 min
What are the implications of Sunak’s effusive overture to Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron receiving UK premier Rishi Sunak at the Elysée Palace last week certainly made for good television. Two...
- Feb 26
- 3 min
Is Nikki Haley the generational change Republicans are looking for?
In a recently released teaser video, Nikki Haley—or more fully Nimrata Nikki Haley nee Randhawa—comes across as a forthright fighter. She...
- Dec 25, 2022
- 3 min
When Jerusalem called on Mukteshwar
It was October 1945. World War II had just ended. Atomic weapons had been deployed for the first time in history. Millions of lives had...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 3 min
Donald Trump’s 1,001 insults
A friend invariably refers to Trump as Drumpf. I thought it was a nickname inspired by The Smurfs and doused generously with indignation....
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
Will Camilla wear the Kohinoor?
A delightful clip on Twitter brightened the autumnal grey beyond my window: Liz Truss arriving for her weekly meeting with King Charles...
- Oct 2, 2022
- 3 min
The urbane and dignified Naresh Kumar
The world was still young and fresh, and life was an adventure waiting to unfold. I was not yet 12. A Phillips transistor radio, gifted...
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