Navtej Sarna

There’s something about Kim—the Jong-un, not the Kardashian. For one, his smiling visage. I do not recall a single picture of him where...

The most dramatic and immediate denunciation of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre came from Rabindranath Tagore. He wrote to the viceroy,...

Coupling is a word usually associated with intimate relations or railway wagons and not with international relations: countries don’t...

A short-story collection by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald titled Bits of Paradise came to mind as I took a sea plane from Male to the island...

It is not just looted diamonds and valuable artefacts that former colonial powers want to hold on to; they can also be possessive about...

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...

Mr Bains, a kindly 90-year-old retired customs officer, hosted us last month at his home amidst mango orchards outside Gurdaspur. Alone,...

French President Emmanuel Macron receiving UK premier Rishi Sunak at the Elysée Palace last week certainly made for good television. Two...

In a recently released teaser video, Nikki Haley—or more fully Nimrata Nikki Haley nee Randhawa—comes across as a forthright fighter. She...

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...

A friend invariably refers to Trump as Drumpf. I thought it was a nickname inspired by The Smurfs and doused generously with indignation....

A delightful clip on Twitter brightened the autumnal grey beyond my window: Liz Truss arriving for her weekly meeting with King Charles...

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...

Should five per cent appear too small/ Be thankful I don’t take it all… said the taxman in the famous Beatles number. But then there is...

Time was when Indian diplomats, having done with decades of writing policy notes, cables and speeches, would settle down in their...

A select committee of the US house of representatives has been conducting televised hearings on the January 6, 2021, attack on the...

A Chekhovian drama was recently played out in Delhi. Media reports front-paged flagrant abuse of power by a senior IAS couple right in...

A year-long celebration is under way to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, as she becomes the first British monarch to...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in a stark statement this week, sheared the jargon off the latest report of the Intergovernmental...

As royals go, the duke and duchess of Cambridge are near perfect. Good-looking, assured and alluringly attired, they waft through crowds...