Recent developments in Algeria have sent shock waves throughout the Western world and given a new urgency to the problem of containing Islamic fundamentalism for would be architects of a new international order in the post-cold war era. This cannot but be a matter of considerable interest to us in … Read More
Mr Dileep Padgaonkar, editor of The Times of India, is not alone in wanting to use the Republic Day for “collective atonement for crimes we have committed, especially against people whose only fault, if it can be called that, is to practise a faith which does not fit into a … Read More
While the threat to the unity of India in Punjab and Kashmir antedates the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the outbreak of the Serbian-Croatian armed conflict in Yugoslavia, these developments have put the issue in a much sharper focus and given the advocates of drastic decentralisation of power new … Read More
Girilal Jain is a senior Indian journalist. He retired as editor of The Times of India at the end of 1988 after what he calls “a near fifty-year career in journalism. He still writes occasionally in the Indian press but says that he likes to spend most of his time … Read More
On the basis of extensive discussions with the Pakistanis spread over two months in New Delhi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar it would appear that a way out of the Indo-Pakistan impasse may be found if the two governments agree to end the present ambiguity on the question of nuclear weapons, … Read More
