Praveen Swami

What began as an assertion of citizenship has become the latest chapter in a struggle that stretches back to the Poonch rebellion of 1947.

The Hindu Mahasabha’s appeal was made in a confidential letter dated 27 August 1951, which was delivered to the British Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata by Ashutosh Lahiry.

Manmohan Singh called it our biggest threat 20 years ago. The state won the war, but history shows Left insurgencies don't stay dead for long.

From MEDO to CENTO to Mecca agreement, military alliances have repeatedly been offered as answers to fundamentally political problems.

From MEDO to CENTO to Mecca agreement, military alliances have repeatedly been offered as answers to fundamentally political problems.

UNSC’s 1267 Committee said in its report that al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent has ‘established logistics and financial networks, working in decentralised small, scattered cells instead of large units’.

Five years after Kabul fell to the Islamic Emirate, world leaders are quietly marketing their acceptance of this regime as realism.

Each pile of bones in Sri Lanka is evidence of what happens when politics disintegrates under the weight of ethnic or religious chauvinism, and dialogue is replaced by the sound of gunfire.

Germany’s experience in the 1930s shows that a large, frustrated youth population can become politically volatile when economic hardship closes off its prospects for a better life.

The India-China border conflict has never been about the few dozen kilometres of desolate earth and ice that separates their claim lines.