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...

IT IS NOW MORE than a year since the gentle but firm David Davidar took away the manuscript of the novel that I had worked on for the...

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...

AMBASSADORS, CONTRARY TO general opinion, can often lead fraught lives. Behind the curtain of glamour and ceremony, they are constant­ly...

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