Skipping the NAM summit is Modi’s heroic effort to retrieve India from the last morasses of ideology
As three historians return to the bloody evolution of 20th century Europe, we realise how the current cataclysms of a continent make it easier for us to understand its past
Complex plots, religious questions, political drama, fairy tales and shifting versions of reality, vodka’s story more than makes up for its lack of colour
In the big bad world, it is again the Russian who happens to be the biggest baddie
Hydrocarbon markets are watching the West’s policy on ‘rogue’ nations for a reason
No autocrat as sanguineous as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is at work today, and it’s nostalgia that drives his extraterritorial ambition.
In her new book, Russian-American writer Masha Gessen puts the spotlight on the spirit of defiance that marks Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot
An Indian theme party in St Petersburg reveals just how well India’s soft power is working in these parts