Navtej Sarna

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...

Green has long been part of the strategic lexicon. Green politics, green banking, green insurance, green architecture, green audit, green...

The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak and its recent predecessors—SARS, Ebola, Zika—should teach us that pandemics view the...

Before Donald Trump mercifully dropped a presidential-sized damp squib on the matter, the tit-for-tat strikes by US and Iran had the...

At the heart of Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University stands the majestic Maha Chulalongkorn building. A few years ago, this impressive...

The strategic gains of the recent Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping informal summit may take time to roll out, but the optics got high marks. The...

Many issues were no doubt covered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump during their recent conversations. It would...

Just when you think things could not get more bizarre, they suddenly do. Recently, US President Donald Trump talked of purchasing...

As assessments of the Trump administration go, Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to Washington DC who resigned recently, was not...

Belfast, the gritty capital of Northern Ireland where I found myself last week, is watching the prime ministerial race in London with an...

Somewhat embarrassedly, I must admit that I had not read Paul Auster, widely acknowledged as one of America’s leading novelists, till his...

The rain pours down. The glowering grey of the clouds thickens the green of the neem, the jamun, even the keekar trees of Delhi. Traffic...

Browsing the bursting bookshelves at Bangalore’s bookshop, Blossoms, I found myself hoping for a small miracle: that from the piles of...

Some half a century ago, Paula Ben-Gurion, wife of Israel’s first Prime Minister looked over the hedge while pottering around her Tel...

It’s the same space in the sky, but that’s about it. The tall, straight-lined and right-angled Intourist Hotel, the pride of Soviet...

For several days now, the military bands have been practising beyond my office window, perfecting their march down to Vijay Chowk and...

A passage to India in the company of E.M. Forster Occasional writing is a much neglected and sometimes denigrated genre probably because...

Tracing Dylan Thomas’s steps to his favourite watering hole, the White Horse Tavern, New York. I am in literary legend land in downtown...