Navtej Sarna

While reading The Sikh Next Door: An Identity in Transition, three incidents sprang to mind. A quarter of a century ago, I was walking...

It is early morning in the hills beyond Shimla around Mashobra. The world is fortunately not yet awake; the sun just about is. Its first...

In the latest twist of the strategic ratchet, Russia has announced that it intends to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive...

Israel has a strong brand. A state-of-the-art country created by pioneers out of the desert. A Jewish homeland where the wretched and the...

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...