Chemical weapons have one drawback for those who are evil enough to use them. Though the poisonous gases may kill and cripple, as they spread silently and insidiously in a harmless-looking cloud, they...
One of the earliest friends I made at the famous St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai (previously known as Bombay), was the gregarious and attractive boy Ismail Merchant who later became a well-known fi...
Have you ever been in this position? You have an appointment in someone’s office and you make the effort to fetch up on time and you enter his office after a mandatory wait outside and shake han...
In the puckish leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage, British people are acquiring an unofficial prime minister. Though he does not have a seat in the British Parliament (he is...
He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling constitutional values i...
Nawaz Sharif is a completely changed person since his return from exile. He is much more articulate and determined to restore the country’s image. When he paid a surprise visit to his archrival,...
