M J Akbar

A time to watch old movies and hit the booksBooks talk. Writing talks back. It is a happy conversation in that tentative space called isolation. Once reading is gently separated from immediate

All religions envisage an AfterlifeOnly atheists believe in death. Theists belong to infinity. For them, a funeral is merely transition of the atman, rooh or soul from existence on earth to a

The Babri decision allows the country to move onThe Supreme Court did India a historic favour. It took emotionalism off the political table. The people will be relieved now, after the Babri Mo

The search for conflict resolution, or its grandiloquent avatar, world peace, has been a central objective of Indian foreign policy ever since India won freedom.India initiated the lexicon of dipl

Believes, therefore he acts At 1 pm on 23 December 1947 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, deputy Prime Minister, sent his resignation to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The reason was a shar

The feast of the ramTwo other faiths, Judaism and Christianity, are called Abrahamic, a tribute to the unique role played by the patriarch-prophet in the nurture of religion; but they have no

The terrorists knew what they were doing in Sri LankaWe will never get the right answers unless we ask the right questions. Nor will we understand the implications of truth until we learn how

A trip through KarnatakaOnly those who have been struck by lightning once believe that lightning can strike at the same place twice.On 1 June 1996, in circumstances comprehensible only to as

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Why Rahul left Amethi for Wayanad If Amethi is not safe for Rahul Gandhi, then there is no safe constituency for Congress between Gangotri and the Bay of Bengal. That is the message that

We associate the famous Arabian Nights chiefly with jinns, jewels and mysterious dancing girls peeking at the Sultan through seven veils. But frippery does not create a classic; substance does. One of