Opinion

  Hamid Dabashi Early in the evening of a delightful December Monday, accompanied by an Egyptian and an Italian friend, I entered the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha...

  A G Noorani The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s speech on October 27 revealed far more openly than before a clear policy to denationalise India’s Muslims, and the RSS’ age-old...

  C K Lal It has been a year of elections in Nepal. On January 31, then Foreign Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat promised to a clutch of Kathmandu-based envoys that...

  Christophe Jaffrelot , Gilles Verniers After decades, Gujarat is back to caste politics. In the 1980s, it was the first state to see violent protests against caste-based reservations after...

  Wasbir Hussain A UN report says although China has 21 per cent of the world’s population, it contains only seven per cent of the world’s freshwater supplies. It took...

  Ejaz Haider During my reporting days in the Nineties, every six months or so, I would come across an identical news report, tucked in some corner of the back...

  Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the Gujarat campaign trail, made the first mistake, though in his mind he must have considered it to be an...

  Jayant V Narlikar One important saying I first encountered as a schoolboy was: Time and tide wait for nobody. I was reminded of it several years later when I...

  Karan Thapar Politicians are usually very careful about what they say in public. They know it can be used against them. Consequently they have a knack of speaking at...

  Khalid Al-Jaber & Giorgio Cafiero Despite warnings from close US allies, US President Donald Trump controversially recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and started the process of moving Washington’s embassy...