Navtej Sarna

When fences erode, or nobody is at home, neighbours tend to take advantage. A nibble at a patch of land, a fence post pushed a yard away,...

The world is still coming to terms with Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Many had no doubt predicted, even feared, this outcome,...

Once the confetti of the inaugural balls has been cleared away, it is possible that Donald Trump may give his attention to the Middle...

There are no other countries like Spain,” says Robert Jordan in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bells Toll . The same belief propelled...

Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face….” Shakespeare’s lines, which once described...

The Soviet Union of yore had a straightforward way of naming places. Moscow’s railway stations, for instance, are named after...

THE United Kingdom’s (UK) new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has had sufficient time to think things through. As the Shadow Foreign...

The recent presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was a sorry spectacle that ended with two old men being childish about...

A tour d’horizon—a global survey of hotspots—is standard ambassadorial practice. Conducted usually over lunch with a counterpart in some...