BEGINNING in the late 1940s, Sino-Indian camaraderie reached its buoyant apogee with the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru鈥檚 inaugural visit to Beijing in October 1954, the leitmotif of which was the spirit of Hindi-Chini bhai bhai (India and China are brothers). Since then, it has been marked by a gradual trajectory of decline, due to a host of controversial...
THE inability to accept defeat with grace comes from an authoritarian streak found in enfeebled democracies. Donald Trump and Narendra Modi, for example, are peas in a pod in this regard. Modi has an added problem 鈥� his compulsive obsessive rivalry with b锚te noir Jawaharlal Nehru鈥檚 back-to-back three-term...
FIFTY-SEVEN races are still to be decided on Saturday, but prime minister Narendra Modi says he has already won a thumping majority. Let us see the mind more than the logic at work here...