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

Jul 8, 20244 min read

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

Jul 7, 20243 min read

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

Jun 16, 20243 min read

In March 1971, I spent several hours in a dentist’s waiting room, dreading the impending torture of the drill. The only compensation were...

Mar 24, 20243 min read

Ballimaran, contrary to a minor urban legend, is not the quarter of cat-killers. It is where once lived the makers of ballis, or the long...

Feb 20, 20243 min read

91 felony indictments later, Trump is exploiting courtrooms as election platforms. Republican nomination almost certainly in his pocket,...

Feb 7, 20241 min read

School athletics taught us that anyone can be good at high jump; the trick is to keep the bar low enough. The same, it appears, is true...

Dec 31, 20233 min read

IT TOOK ONLY SIX WEEKS AFTER THEY HAD moved into their new home for Ajit and Reema to throw their first dinner party. “Come sharp at...

Dec 22, 202319 min read

In 2016, just before the Brexit referendum, a South Asian immigrant in the British Midlands was asked for his views. He was fervently in...

Dec 3, 20233 min read