Tunku Varadarajan is the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
April 10,2016 00:10:28 AM
The escalation of the National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, incident has shown us up as a truly petty people.
Sun, Apr 10, 2016April 03,2016 00:15:23 AM
A form of cricket once scorned by the purists can be a thing of real beauty.
Sun, Apr 03, 2016March 27,2016 00:05:28 AM
On March 22, multiple explosions in Brussels left 31 dead. Five takeaways from the most recent act of Islamist terrorism in the West.
Sun, Mar 27, 2016March 20,2016 00:09:30 AM
Here’s an Indian Test XI that would fight to the bitter end. I start with Gavaskar and Sehwag. And please note there is no Tendulkar.
Sun, Mar 20, 2016March 13,2016 00:15:39 AM
The billionaire is wrecking the Republican Party — and making things easy for the Democrats.
Sun, Mar 13, 2016March 06,2016 00:10:14 AM
Let us hail Kanhaiya. If not for his politics, then certainly for the eloquence of his language.
Sun, Mar 06, 2016February 28,2016 00:16:12 AM
The ruling party should leave secularism alone. Economic reform is what will save India from itself
Sun, Feb 28, 2016February 21,2016 00:36:41 AM
Some lessons from the national embarrassment that is the JNU sedition affair. Will non-Hindutva Modi voters be left in the lurch?
Sun, Feb 21, 2016February 14,2016 00:56:42 AM
One is a political freak, the other a self-made leader with a vision for his country. The comparisons are amusing, but utterly facile.
Sun, Feb 14, 2016February 07,2016 00:05:17 AM
Indians need to take drastic action to end racism against black Africans. We can’t be behaving like animals toward foreigners in our country.
Sun, Feb 07, 2016January 31,2016 00:17:46 AM
There’s a galloping sense of ‘buyer’s remorse’, as the Old Continent wakes up to the truth that it has taken on a mass of people who cannot be assimilated.
Sun, Jan 31, 2016January 24,2016 00:10:50 AM
A respected journalist is gagged by goons on a university campus.
Sun, Jan 24, 2016January 17,2016 00:10:28 AM
Ms Haley is Indian-American, and Christian, and a political star.
Sun, Jan 17, 2016January 10,2016 00:24:09 AM
What India must do—and not do—in its war against terrorists
Sun, Jan 10, 2016January 03,2016 00:36:40 AM
From foreign policy to gay sex, what went wrong and what went right.
Sun, Jan 03, 2016December 27,2015 00:20:49 AM
The hypocrisy of the Islamic world is laid bare once more
Sun, Dec 27, 2015December 20,2015 00:30:45 AM
As Nirbhaya, Jyoti became a symbol of civic convenience that fit with Indian society’s patriarchy. We know her name. Let’s say it aloud, again and again
Sun, Dec 20, 2015December 13,2015 00:05:59 AM
All that makes and breaks the country — faith to family, politics to media.
Sun, Dec 13, 2015December 06,2015 00:20:17 AM
In both, cricket and politics, what we were seeing was a species of indignant, nationalist pushback against standards set by the West.
Sun, Dec 06, 2015November 29,2015 00:13:27 AM
I’d be lying if I were to say that I don’t enjoy watching India play Pak. That word — enjoy — is a meagre way to describe the feelings that course through millions of Indians when India takes on its westerly neighbour.
Sun, Nov 29, 2015November 22,2015 00:19:31 AM
It hardly needs stating, also, that the Islamist terrorists are as brutal to those Muslims who aren’t of a hardline Salafi creed as they are to non-Muslim infidels.
Sun, Nov 22, 2015November 15,2015 00:00:14 AM
There’s only one truly pan-Indian leader, Modi, whether we like him or not. The salvation of India rests with him, provided he reforms himself.
Sun, Nov 15, 2015November 08,2015 00:06:12 AM
India needed a leader of the nation. Instead, it got the leader of a party.
Sun, Nov 08, 2015November 01,2015 00:10:26 AM
The government has scarred its foreign policy with its stupidity on Nepal.
Sun, Nov 01, 2015October 25,2015 00:06:58 AM
The best name for Sehwag is the Great Deflator. No modern batsman could take the wind out of an opening attack — deflate it, in other words — as adeptly as Sehwag.
Sun, Oct 25, 2015