China wouldn't let Marco Rubio in, so he did something nobody in US politics has ever doneMarco Rubio visited China with Donald Trump. Beijing altered the spelling of Rubio's name to bypass sanctions imposed in 2020. This linguis...
14 May, 2026, 05.55 PM IST
Quote of the day by Pablo Neruda: ‘Love is so short, forgetting is so long. This be the last pain that she makes me suffer'; Chilean poet and Nobel laureate on heartbreak, and the pain of letting goPablo Neruda's poetry explores heartbreak's lasting impact. His famous lines 'Love is so short, forgetting is so long' resonate deeply. Ner...
08 May, 2026, 08.33 AM IST
Former Army Chief Gen Naravane’s new book launched, check what it is about and what he said after the launchFormer Army Chief General MM Naravane has released a new book, 'The Curious and the Classified'. The book explores military myths and myste...
24 Apr, 2026, 12.32 PM IST
What if… why not? — A diplomat’s memoir that speaks in human tonesMorocco's Ambassador to India, H.E. Mohamed Maliki, shares profound insights in his book, "What if… Why Not?" Beyond diplomatic accounts, i...
28 Jan, 2026, 10.57 PM IST
How Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky planned to win over Donald Trump, and it involved Melania; here's all about itDuring recent times, significant developments are revealing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have set some significant plans to ...
25 Jan, 2025, 02.27 AM IST
King Charles sends heartfelt message to Donald Trump ahead of his inaugurationKing Charles congratulates Donald Trump on his inauguration, highlighting the strong US-UK partnership. Prince William recently met Trump i...
21 Jan, 2025, 01.47 AM IST
Third Eye: Booking hours, babudom inertia, and top secret examsParliamentarians display their reading choices, from memoirs to diplomatic narratives. Meanwhile, bureaucratic inertia challenges a two-yea...
13 Dec, 2024, 12.01 AM IST
How Indian Foreign Service spouses are engaging with new cultures and weathering adversityOnly a few IFS spouses have written memoirs. Reba Som's Hop, Skip and Jump: The Peregrinations of a Diplomat's Wife and Lekha Sreenivasan's...
07 Dec, 2024, 12.10 AM IST
From Putin and Kim to Modi: Trump’s 'friends' list unlike that of any other US PresidentDonald Trump's distinctive approach to foreign policy, marked by personal relationships with world leaders like Narendra Modi, Kim Jong Un,...
06 Nov, 2024, 06.33 PM IST
What is the controversy surrounding South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Kim Jong Un?Kristi Noem, a Republican, achieved a historic milestone as South Dakota's first female governor. She secured reelection in 2022 after repr...
06 May, 2024, 05.02 PM IST
When some foreign service officers were ready to protest against then PM Rajiv Gandhi and Natwar Singh stepped inThis incident was narrated by Singh, who was a minister of state then, at the launch of the book 'An Unfinished Journey' - a memoir of late...
03 Aug, 2022, 11.31 AM IST
- India and US: Natural allies
Over the course of the last half-century, I have had numerous opportunities to watch India’s evolution, first from the vantage point of a s...
17 Jun, 2021, 08.55 AM IST
Anger mounts in Bangladesh as Pakistan denies war crimesPakistan on Monday "rejected insinuation of 'complicity in committing crimes or war atrocities'." It also voiced "deep concern and anguish"...
02 Dec, 2015, 02.36 PM IST
Jaipur Literature Festival: Why memoirs, despite their author's best intentions, cannot & need not be accurateNo one expects it [a memoir] to be journalism. They know you are reconstructing from memory. Memoir is you telling the truth as you see it,...
25 Jan, 2015, 02.38 AM IST
Pakistan not an ally of US: Robert Gates, former US Defence SecretaryRobert Gates, the former US Defence Secretary who was the strongest supporter of Pakistan, believes that Islamabad is not an ally of Americ...
09 Jan, 2014, 03.18 PM IST
Indian scribe publishes real life stories from Gulf regionA Dubai-based Indian journalist has published a random collection of his stories that have been printed in Gulf newspapers.
02 Jul, 2013, 10.58 AM IST
- Three-book deal for Condoleezza Rice
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a three-book deal with Crown Publishers, starting with a memoir about her years in...
23 Feb, 2009, 03.08 AM IST