Mountbatten’s ‘Shameful flight’Churchill had used the expression ‘shameful flight’ to describe the hurried British exit from India. UCLA’s Stanley Wolpert, the biographer of Jinnah, Nehru and Gandhi, made that phrase the title of h...
Of Jinnah, Nehru and HindutvaIn August last year, I participated in an international seminar at Banaras Hindu University. The keynote address was given by a Hindutva ideologue, Prof Kapil Kapoor who has authored the Encyclopaedia...
Blow to International Humanitarian LawInternational Humanitarian Law (IHL) is applicable on both international and non-international armed conflicts. Given the Kashmir issue, this law, being the major component of international law, has a...
An ideal caretaker governmentThere are a lot of rumours going around about the caretakers and the likely candidates. Before deciding on this, we need to be clear on what role do we expect them to play. Do we plan to use them to o...