France has always stood for secular values. “La Laïcité”, as the French say, means literally ‘what is not religious’. One should understand that until the French Revolution in the 18th…
France was one of the Five official nuclear powers of the IAEA, which got ‘convinced’ last week by Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on the merits of the safeguards agreement.What is…
San Francisco. What is it to be an Indian today? What is meant by Indian-ness ? What is it to be an Indian abroad - in the United States, for…
Everybody but (the answer is at the end of this article, don’t cheat, wait for the last line!) wants Sonia Gandhi to become Prime Minister of India.It is true there…
We can understand that India wants to de-link child labour from trade issues. Because, although the West is right in pointing out that there is indeed a terrible exploitation of…
Thousands of oil lamps are scintillating in the starry night of Dharamsala, in the Indian Himalayas at a height of 1800 metres. It is here that the Tibetan community in…
It is fashionable nowadays to say that Buddhism heralded “the Renaissance of India”. In fact, Buddhism is often used as a weapon against Hinduism – whether by India specialists abroad…
