Henry Kissinger: Modern Day Chanakya

Kissinger's approach of balance of power, secret diplomacy and moderating ideology are the need of the hour.That is the greatest tribute to an intellectual who had a major impact on the world in......

Why Indians won't trust Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger's perspectives on India have changed over the years. So how does India take to the mellowed Dr Kissinger? India's elites may have dropped their earlier allergy toward Kissinger,......

Kissinger used racist, misogynist language for then PM Indira Gandhi

Henry Kissinger, the veteran American diplomat who died at the age of 100, was known for his disdain towards India's leadership in the 1970s and even had used racist and misogynist language for the......

Has US Averted India-Pakistan War?

The 'mediation' by the United States from behind the scene on the diplomatic track appears to be once again working, which calls on both Delhi and Islamabad to show restraint and pull back from a......

Pepsi to double China workforce: Nooyi

Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, PepsiCo Inc, at a discussion at the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences on Tuesday in Beijing, China. Nooyi joined other CEOs of......

5 places Modi must visit in China

A visit to the factories of Guangdong would have been a good place to start for Prime Minister Modi. It is the crucible of economic reform, says Rahul Jacob. No prime minister of India has visited......

What China learned from Lee Kuan Yew... and India didn't

Lee deserved to lead a bigger country than Singapore, the city of 5 million he ruled for three decades, says Rahul Jacob. One of the asymmetries of history is the lack of correspondence between the......

Abhijit Banerjee and the mystique of the Nobel Prize

Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Photograph: Brian......

10 Lovely Stories From Across The World

After an interruption of two years, the Berlin Film Festival returned in full force. A range of remarkable films were show, from new discoveries, return of old masters and a celebration of classic......

What's the big deal about Parasite?

'Are we too close as well-off Indians, all with servants and drivers and tuition teachers ourselves, to be able to understand why it is all so awful?', asks Aakar Patel. I saw the movie Parasite......

Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas to be divorced

A lowdown on what's happening in the world of Hollywood, right here. Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Images It seems like the season for breaking marriages as Antonio Banderas and Melanie......

Kissinger to promote US WC bid

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, architect of President Richard Nixon's detente with China, faced a new diplomatic challenge on Monday -- helping craft a U.S. bid to host the soccer......

How Pele elevated football's popularity in US

Pele was eventually convinced to sign a multimillion-dollar deal with US club New York Santos in June 1975, aided by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who wrote a letter to the Brazilian......