Navtej Sarna

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,...

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...