It was a sheer coincidence that India exploded its first nuclear device last May when Pakistan was facing a number of major internal difficulties and the anti-Ahmediya campaign was beginning to gather momentum. This partly explains the virulence of Mr Bhutto’s reaction. But even if this country had held the … Read More
Mrs Gandhi has demonstrated such a sure political instinct on a number of occasions that it is difficult to believe that she may have made a mistake in reopening the Kashmir issue through her talks with Sheikh Abdullah. But the clashes between the followers of the Sheikh and Mir Waiz … Read More
India is so large a country that unless things go wrong in a highly dramatic fashion, as in West Bengal at the time of the Naxalite violence in 1970 and earlier, unfortunate developments in one state do not cause much concern in others. Often even the Centre quietly turns a … Read More
It is a measure of the continuing hold of 19th century rationalism on educated Indians that they have by and large taken it for granted that Mr Nehru opted for a mixed economy, with a steadily expanding public sector, only because he was convinced that this approach was best suited … Read More
