'What I thought would be a courtesy call of ten to fifteen minutes extended to over an hour as the president asked further questions about our assessment of the actual reserves in the Daulatabad gas field in Turkmenistan...'

Put to backbreaking labour for up to 20 hours a day, supervised by brutal, whip-cracking overseers, the indentured were effectively deprived of all rights and, like the slaves earlier, tied forever to their masters.

An internal party enquiry found that Arun Nehru had played a role in getting the locks to the Masjid opened.

An exploration of different interpretations of basic Islamic texts in the light of rationalism became gradually but definitively the drumbeat of Azad’s thinking.

A former ambassador to China and an advisor to the government on climate change, Shekhar's most enduring accomplishments were his definitive accounts of the 1947-48 Kashmir crisis and the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971.

Just below the epidermis, J&K simmers. All it takes for the resentment and anger to surface is a mild question or two.

Investigative reporter Niranjan Takle's page-turning read sheds light on the mystery and secrecy which formed part of the events that led up to Justice Loya's death.

In Vinayak Chaturvedi's 'Hindutva and Violence', we see the origins of what we are faced with today and what we will face in the foreseeable future.

In 'West Asia: Repression, Resistance and Great Power Games', the author begins his narrative with the 19th century scramble among European powers for dominance in the region.

The Valley is without disturbance as perhaps never before, but the people's trust has been broken.

The US had lost even before the proceedings of the World Health Assembly began.

Instead of soundly running foreign policy through sober, institutionalised mechanisms, it is the misuse of foreign affairs to build a personality cult that has been at the root of the Modi Diplomatic Disaster in South Asia.

"Our sorrow is common to all of us; we have become the playthings of both countries (India and Pakistan)."