One of the deadliest weapons being used by both Iraq and the US led multinational forces in the Gulf war is the weapon of disinformation. While the world press attention is focused on the actual gory war, little attention is being paid to the media war, the ‘doctored’ information that is emerging from the two […]

One still recoils in horror when one comes across the picture of a 10-year old, naked Vietnamese girl who is running for her life, terror writ large on her face. It depicts the aftermath resulting from the use of Napalm bomb by the United States during the Vietnam War. Even after two decades, the clouds […]

With the scrapping of the United States economic and military aid to Pakistan from October 1, Pakistan ha failed to clothe its nuclear weapons programme in the garb of peaceful intentions. Initially, Pakistan had hopes that after the General Elections on October 24, the USA will resume the aid flow, but the hopes have been […]

“Chinese premier Li Peng’s visit to India generates quiet optimism about improved relations” The ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius, once said “De bu gu, bi you living” (a virtuous government won’t be in isolation. It will enjoy good neighbourliness). Apparently, not so long back, the Chinese could not care less about what ancient philosophers had to […]

Nothing about Mohammed Ali Jinnah was simple—not his politics, not his personal life, and certainly not the property he left behind. To whom does the white colonial estate called Jinnah House on Malabar Hill belong? To India, Pakistan or his 88-year-old daughter Dina who lives in Manhattan and who recently moved the Bombay High Court […]

Ketan Tanna examines why the claims of race go beyond passports and boundaries   Last year, the Indian High Commission in Guyana published an advert in a local newspaper offering scholarships to ‘Children of the Diaspora’. An angry reader wrote in that the Indian government should surely know that while assistance to Guyana was welcome […]