Navtej Sarna

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...

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

US President Donald Trump should be in a good mood when he lands in India on February 24. The impeachment drama is behind him; even if...

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...