This is not the first time that the BJP has tried to drive a wedge between Sikhs and Muslims.

Today, as India goes to the polls with ideas of security becoming ever more politically contested, it is worth revisiting the 1974 test and the different meanings of security that fed into India’s PNE.

And all indications are that these protests and disruptions are set to continue – this could be a summer of discontent for the United States at a time when it has never seemed to be so politically divided.   

Avi Shlaim’s memoir, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, turns the spotlight back on some of the things that the Jewish nation, centred on the state of Israel, prefers to forget or suppress.

Sacked home secretary Suella Braverman will now emerge as a leading voice of the hard right-wing.

Twenty-five years ago, I struggled to swallow the lump in my throat as I remembered saying goodbye to my mother’s bookshop as a child. Now that inconvenient lump is back in my throat.

A difficult colonial history shared by 52 of the 56 current members of the Commonwealth was deftly obfuscated by pomp and circumstance. With the Queen’s passing, tensions may now bubble to the surface.

In Nehru’s view, India's history, her variety, her unruliness and her great inequalities gave her the right to seek a global role in which all could rise together. Modi, however, sees global politics as a backdrop for his and the BJP's domestic ambitions.

What would the world’s response be if Putin, suffering more setbacks in this war that he expected to win quickly, were to use a low-yield nuclear weapon somewhere near Ukraine? What happens if the nuclear genie is let out of the bottle?

This is, of course, not the first time that India has fumbled in response to developments in Moscow. But a country that will not study its history objectively is condemned to repeat it.

We vowed, never again. Yet today we are watching another state attempt to disenfranchise a people because of their religion.  How long will we stay silent?