India
China is the latest victim of Pakistan's Islamist problem
Nine Chinese engineers were killed in an explosion near Pakistan’s Dasu hydroelectric dam last Wednesday. The government initially said that their…
Has India's second Covid wave peaked?
While the Indian variant continues to dominate the headlines, India itself seems to have dropped out of the news a…
Portrait of the week: Covid retreats, raves resume and a £165,000 squid
Home ‘I think we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the one-metre-plus from 21 June,’…
How the West can help India
Why India is reluctant to lock down again
In India, the Covid crisis has left us helpless and broken
We’re running out of beds, oxygen, medicines – and hope
The difference between private and public conversation
Like almost everyone else writing on the subject, I have no idea whether Boris Johnson told colleagues in October that…
How concerned should we be by the Indian variant?
In recent weeks there has been a lot of new-found optimism in Britain with regards to Covid: case numbers, hospitalisations…
Joe Biden's skewed climate change priorities
It’s not hard to see why politicians like Joe Biden and Boris Johnson want to talk about climate change. First…
Video calls are the new penny post
Dear Sir, I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust…
Merkel's vaccine nationalism threatens India
You might have thought that Europe’s leaders would be wary of handing Brussels greater powers, given the various mishaps of the…
India’s selective Covid crackdown
India’s Covid crisis is raging out of control. Over the past two months, the country has witnessed a staggering ten-fold increase in infections.…
Why Boris was so reluctant to cancel his India trip
Just a few hours after Boris Johnson confirmed that his trip to India had been postponed, the country has been placed…
A word about Prince Philip and religion
The recent Sewell report on Race and Ethnic Disparities has been much abused and little read. It is full of…
Letters: There’s nothing libertarian about vaccine passports
Taking liberties Sir: I feel that Matthew Parris is absolutely wrong about liberty (‘The libertarian case for vaccine passports’, 10…
Letters: The inconsistencies of Mormonism
A leap of faith Sir: I live not far from the ‘London Temple’ of the Church of Jesus Christ of…
What cricket will look like in 50 years
After the thrills and spills and last-gasp excitements of England’s triple-headed series in India, the attention of the cricket fan…
Letters: Britain should hang on to its vaccines
Ticket to freedom Sir: While I sympathise immensely with the spirit of last week’s lead article (‘Friends in need’, 27…
China vs America: the struggle for south-east Asia
Can Biden’s America contain China?
Power jab: the rise of vaccine diplomacy
An international power tussle over vaccines is under way
Just not cricket: the BBC is failing the Test
Michael Vaughan might disagree but — putting aside 2005 and all that — was there a more thrilling and satisfying…
So good I watched it twice: Netflix's The White Tiger reviewed
The White Tiger is adapted from the Booker-prize winning novel (2008) by Aravind Adiga. It is directed by Ramin Bahrani…
Is Indian cricket no longer cricket?
There is nothing in world sport, ‘nothing in the history of the human race’, Ramachandra Guha modestly reckons, that can…
A romcom with very little com: BBC1’s Black Narcissus reviewed
In Black Narcissus, based on the novel by Rumer Godden, five nuns set off for a remote Himalayan palace in…
The truth about Burma’s ‘imprisoned princess’
It’s as ignorant to demonise Aung San Suu Kyi as it was to idolise her
Spectacular and mind-expanding: Tantra at the British Museum reviewed
A great temple of the goddess Tara can be found at Tarapith in West Bengal. But her true abode, in…
