Great Jataka Tales Summary: In a small forest, a hare convinces his friendsa monkey, a jackal and a water-weaselto share their food with the hungry. But when the hare finds nothing to eat, and a fairy disguised as an old…
I was in my second year of law college in Lahore when Mohammad Ali Jinnah came to address the students. Habib, my Kashmiri classmate, was an active member of the Muslim League and had arranged the function. Initially, he did not…
On June 7 Wipro Ltds Chairman, Azim Premji announced that effective 31 July, 2019 he will step down from his current role at the company he led for more than half a century and devote more time to his philanthropic…
Challenges of Governance traces the long and remarkable journey of B.K. Chaturvedi, from the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh where he grew up, to the heady days when he became Cabinet Secretary and, thereafter, Member of the erstwhile Planning Commission. This memoir…
NON-FICTION When India Votes :The Dynamics of Successful Election Campaigning by Jaishri Jethwaney and Samir Kapur (INR 295, 216pp) [[{“type”:”media”,”fid”:”38989″,”view_mode”:”wysiwyg”,”instance_fields”:”override”}]] ABOUT THE BOOK Elections have always been festive occasions in liberal democracies, and India is no exception. Media becomes one of…
The third round of AdvaniHurriyat talks was scheduled for June 2004, on the assumption that the BJP would win the general election in May. The BJP lost the election, however. The Vajpayee government fell and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance…
Born in a world where the Muslim community has been divided into two indefinite sects makes for a reality that we have come to accept and also overlook. The conflict between Sunnis and Shias is the news of everyday, but…
Can Jammu and Kashmir recover from this low? Can a new peace process rise from the old ones ashes?The lessons we learn from Jammu and Kashmirs history are several. The past fifteen years threw up four. First, from Vajpayee, we…
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