Guest Columns

Talking about one’s own work can be challenging, and it is easier to share my thoughts in a Q&A format. I hope you will find the few minutes needed to explore the information about a book that I wrote over the span of ten years. What led you to start composing the very first poem […]

The young cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal articulated an important insight about our country at the end of the third Test against England, where he scored his second double-century at the tender age of 22. “In India, when you grow up, you work really hard for each and every thing,” he said when asked about his approach

This past year, the ascent of Rishi Sunak—a brown-skinned, cow-worshipping Indian—as prime minister of the UK has been enthusiastically celebrated. More strikingly, it serves as another reminder of the prominence of the Indian diaspora in the western world. This has been evident in the private sector, where executives born and raised in India have been

IF 2024 will be known as the year of seismic general elections, it will also be remembered as the one of unforgettable weddings. In India, Mumbai is still aglitter in the after-glow of the wedding of Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. The festivities spread over weeks of uncapped extravagance. The total

President Joe Biden insists that he is still running. He has not said in which direction. He needs to decide quickly before someone makes up his mind for him. Some expect the Democrat party to push him over the edge. Others that his medical team may advise him against subjecting himself to the rigour of

On 13th of October 2023, when the untimely passing is K. S. Sachindanda Murthy (known in media circles as Sachi) was announced, in my lifetime I have never seen the media react in such a manner. Almost every newspaper and magazine in India covered his life and contribution to journalism. My maternsl grandfather, K. C.

Sweden needs to improve its support for the families of Swedish citizens imprisoned in dictatorships such as China, Eritrea and Iran. And stop distinguishing between foreign-born Swedes like Dawit Isaak, Ahmadreza Djalali or Gui Minai, and native Swedes like the Swedish diplomat Johan Floderus, arrested in Tehran last year. Somehow, the past is always present.

Even though the colonial-era Parliament building is being replaced with much fanfare in India, the criminal defamation law, along with many other colonial laws, like seditious libel, enacted by the British raj in the 19th century, is still in effect. The “mother of democracy” – India – stands out as a glaring outlier among the

Basheer Ahmed M.D. A few years ago, while I was in Turkey, a long-cherished desire took me to visit Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi’s shrine in Konya, Turkey. A great scholar, philosopher or Sufi born once in a thousand years. And Rumi was one of those people who was born in 1207. Maulana Rumi the founder of