Fauci, Halder and Covid woes

Men carry a corpse on the banks of Ganga where other bodies can be seen buried in shallow graves some 40km from Allahabad.I could not but compliment the proactive steps some dynastic regimes have taken in the first half of 2020 in controlling the nov...

‘Open Sangsar’: The radio message that sealed the fate of East Pakistan

INS VikrantThe fascinating story of INS Vikrant’s role in bringing the 1971 war to a conclusion in India’s favour.Heating the iron1971 was an eventful year for the Indian subcontinent. In this year, Amitabh Bachchan got his first Filmfare...

Xi Jinping is a threat to global peace; World needs to follow India: China’s exiled Tiananmen leader

New Delhi: Communist Party of China’s Xi Jinping is a major threat to global peace and the world needs to follow India in fighting his expansionism, an exiled Chinese student leader who had led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest has said.Zhou Fe...

Romancing the war – in fiction and flames

Representative photo from Creative Commons.“... somewhere, my love”War is about death. Death of the human body and humanity per se. Erik Maria Remarque in his epoch-making “All Quiet on the Western Front” got his lead characte...