Intellectuals of a society are its leading lights; not weathervanes! In a speech delivered in Bristol in 1780, Edmund Burke told his constit...

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the propos...

It has been a quarter of a century since the Kashmiri Pandits were uprooted from their home and hearth and cast about as refugees in the...

In a landmark judgement delivered on June 30, 1971, the US federal Supreme Court upheld the right of The New York Times ( New York Times Co...

On this day in 1948, Hyderabad was liberated and integrated with the Indian Union. Here is a brief account of the liberation excerpted from...

One may not agree with Lord Birkenhead’s view that ‘India is a land of mobs’ (1930,  Turning Points in History ), but it is a land of inc...