A new book by diplomat T.C.A. Raghavan considers the ‘second rung’ of freedom fighters who made significant contributions.

An intrepid reporter’s first-hand account of the debacle next door.

A new book on the first few batches of India’s diplomats, though a valiant effort, raises more questions than answers.

Given the tribulations to which the Islamic Republic was constantly subjected by the Western political establishment, Raisi's record is substantial. The immediate challenge before the political order is to elect Raisi’s successor.

It is mystifying why Penguin has chosen to republish these ill-informed fulminations of the long forgotten Hamid Dalwai.

Taylor C. Sherman has written a timely book that gives us a feel for Nehruvian India and reminds us what we so desperately need in India today.

The Indian government is confident that the West Asian states’ reluctance to comment on domestic developments in other countries, lest their own dismal situation come in for international scrutiny, will ensure that the government’s mistreatment of its Muslim community will not evoke any adverse comment.

As Americans celebrate Biden’s ‘delivery of justice’, they should also remember that neither he nor his predecessors have ever introspected about the US’s own complicity in encouraging global jihad.

An excerpt from veteran Indian diplomat Talmiz Ahmad's book, 'West Asia at War: Repression, Resistance and Great Power Games'.

A book by two Cambridge scholars paints India’s first prime minister as naive on foreign policy, which is far from the truth.

Is the Khashoggi murder then that ‘significant moment’ in world affairs, one that in itself may not be earth-shaking, but somehow captures the moment and has a cascading impact beyond anything that seasoned observers could have anticipated?

N.S. Vinodh's 'A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain' is about a man who played an important – if supporting – role in the independence struggle.

Former ambassador to Syria Rajendra Abhyankar's 'Syria: The Tragedy of a Pivotal State' goes well beyond the author’s diplomatic experience, and encompasses several later visits to Syria during the decade-old confrontations.

In 'Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History', Ishtiaq Ahmed proposes that Jinnah’s motivations were not ideological but personal and “strategic-tactical”.

The Congresswoman, a Somali-origin Muslim, has fought many obstacles but has a long way to go in American politics.

From the US and Brazil to India and the UK, the very qualities that catapult populist leaders to power are those that make them dismal failures at handling a serious national emergency.

From the US and Brazil to India and the UK, the very qualities that catapult populist leaders to power are those that make them dismal failures at handling a serious national emergency.

Communal-minded zealots, blinded by the religious binary, seem largely unfamiliar with the 5000-year heritage that has bonded the Indian and West Asian civilisations and peoples.

The pandemic has been used cynically to demonise Muslims and scapegoat them for the calamity, just as Blacks in South Africa were blamed for the Spanish Flu and the Jews in medieval Europe for the plague.

Observers believe that Trump's order to kill Soleimani was not the result of considered reflection within the administration, but a spontaneous decision by the president while on holiday in Florida.