Navtej Sarna

Quadrilaterals are generally irregular; the only regular quadrilateral, a square, has all its sides, and all its angles, equal. As in...

THE NEW GREAT GAME “Now I shall go far and far into the north, playing the Great Game….” —Rudyard Kipling (Kim, 1901) THE EPITHET OF the...

Aldwych Street sits like an old-fashioned geometry D on London’s Strand. Down this crescent, the Indian tricolour flutters from its...

Boys, it is said, will be boys. Not so long ago, Donald Trump boasted to Kim Jong-un that his nuclear button was bigger and more powerful...

Development, as it is sometimes interpreted, took a hit in Patna recently. The planned route of a flyover was changed to avoid...

From where I sit, the summer afternoon is worthy of a Wordsworth. The dappled sunshine spells laziness; the buzzing of a bee heightens...

The question at the cold heart of this debate is simple: Should money be made out of human misery? Should the worst health tragedy in a...

It was the fall of 1983. On my first visit to Paris, short on money but high on romance, I idled over a coffee in a wayside cafe in the...

The Golan Heights hide their tensions well. The road sweeps languidly through lightly wooded hills past wetlands that attract millions of...

Call it a diplomat’s lucky day: in Washington in the spring of 2017, I found myself seated next to Jeff Bezos at the Gridiron dinner. The...

Coincidences matter. As the world raced to the end of 2020 like a parched man to an oasis, two news items caught the eye: in Moscow,...

And when the snow falls, you’re found in St Moritz With the others of the jet set And you sip your Napoleon brandy But you never get your...

Just when we as a nation were wondering how Indian would Kamala Harris be, an Irishman has come forth boldly to throw light on the...

So Richard Nixon found Indian women unattractive and sexless. We shall not ask what Indian women thought of Richard Nixon: after all he...

A closely guarded barrier—part concrete wall, part fence—separates the West Bank from Israel. Palestinian residents of the West Bank can...

London steals a march over Washington, DC with its drollery, if that is the mot juste that Jeeves would have approved. Nothing is allowed...

But for the occasional, accidental one, we do not get too many revealing books by insiders of high offices. Perhaps because our insiders...

Pandemic pictures have given way to visuals of spiralling protests against the brutal police killing of a black man. Pictures on instant...

Grandpa buried his pa with his own hand, done it in dignity, an’ shaped the grave nice with his own shovel. That was a time when a man...

This too shall pass, though the price will be high. Human nature will bounce back. Many sincere resolutions will be consigned to...