A soldier's life on the icy cliffs of Ladakh

'The Pangong Tso lake is frozen from September-October to February-March.' 'The night temperature goes to minus 40.''The area is like a barren desert. You are out in the open with no trees or......

What if Nehru had used the IAF in 1962?

'If we had sent a few airplanes (into Tibet), we could have wiped the Chinese out.''And everything could have been different in the 1962 War.''They did not believe me there was no Chinese air......

Why the Rohingyas feel safe in India

The government says it will deport all 40,000 Rohingyas soon.Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar meets a community of Rohingya refugees on the outskirts of Chennai who are happy to have found a place where......

Narayanan to Kovind, a tale of two Dalit Presidents

Like the first Dalit President K R Narayanan, National Democratic Alliance's presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind has risen from a modest background but the two Dalit leaders took different paths......

Legendary investor Jim Rogers: My biggest disappointment is how little Modi has done

'Modi hasn't done much to change the basic macro economic problems facing India. Too much regulation, too much control and the rupee is still not convertible on the capital account. This is 2015,......

Asia in 2008: Its rise is a global good

As 2008 draws near, very few educated people can still be unaware of the rising economic and strategic power of Asia. Consider 2007. The year began with China firing a ballistic missile to destroy......

How to treat coloured people

Exactly a month ago, my wife, son and I were not allowed to board a British Airways flight to Paris via London because we didn't have a transit visa, called a Direct Airside Transit Visa. This came......

Do economic boycotts work?

Boycotts are a funny business, and none funnier than the economic ones. Iran is going to be threatened by United Nations sanctions over its nuclear policy. Iran was exposed to economic boycotts by......