History remembers the phrase anyway because it captured something people desperately wanted to believe: that those who ruled France had become incapable of understanding the ambitions, anxieties and frustrations of ordinary people.
There was a time when financial markets valued companies on the basis of what they produced, what they earned and what they could reasonably be expected to achieve.
The anti-defection law was meant to end the era of the “Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram” politician. Four decades later, it has produced constitutional alchemists seeking ever newer ways to turn defection into legality.
India is determined to have secure borders and will not compromise national security at any cost. Speeches of the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister during the recently concluded elections have highlighted this determination and resolve.
There was a time when geopolitics moved through formal rooms. A state issued a statement. A spokesperson read from a prepared text.
The collapse of the Dutch government, less than a year after it was formed, reveals the deep fault lines running through European coalition politics today.
For decades, the United States has represented the ultimate academic and professional frontier for Indian students.
India is a member of George W Bush and other formations. Where to locate the Global South? The language of development is the best way to understand worlds in the making. But it has become la langue de bois (the language of evasion).
In any discussion with Americans, especially Christians, about death and afterlife I find it difficult to bring up the subject of reincarnation. They neither understand nor believe in the concept.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir last week carried more than the weight of a new railway link — it carried the resolve of a nation that refuses to be broken by terror.
