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Navtej Sarna
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No Trump card for an end to Middle East war

The incoming US administration is unlikely to demand an early ceasefire or read chapter and verse of humanitarian law to Israel

Trump chided Biden for trying to hold back Netanyahu, though that too was hardly a valid presumption (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (AFP)
Published on Nov 11, 2024 09:16 PM IST

Russian roulette over CTBT is ominous

The lacklustre Ukraine counter-offensive despite heavy inflow of western armaments has shown that there is unlikely to be a quick fix to Russia-Ukraine

In this video grab provided by RU-RTR Russian television via AP television on Thursday, March 1, 2018, the Avangard hypersonic vehicle blasts off during a test launch at an undisclosed location in Russia. President Vladimir Putin declared Thursday that Russia has developed a range of new nuclear weapons, claiming they can't be intercepted by enemy.(AP)
Published on Oct 16, 2023 11:25 AM IST

Israel’s crisis has reached a transformative crescendo

This crisis that brought the country to a grinding halt has been long in the making and was allowed to mature by a persistent failure of governance

Protesters block a road and hold national flags during a rally against the Israeli government's judicial reform in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 27, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)(AFP)
Published on Mar 30, 2023 06:35 PM IST

The uphill road that awaits PM Liz Truss

There is great pessimism concerning her victory, which only adds to the country’s travails post-Brexit, while confronting an economic downturn. The challenges ahead are daunting and critical

The country’s third woman PM may as well, as the British say, ‘get on with it’. And as she does, she should keep an eye out for a man named Boris Johnson in the rear-view mirror. (Reuters)
Published on Sep 06, 2022 10:22 PM IST

India-UK: Time is ripe to craft a new legacy

When both sides are approaching the relationship afresh, this moment is ideal for cementing a strategic logic that can envelop the niggling irritants and take the conversation beyond the Commonwealth, curry, and cricket

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens to a student as the chief minister of India's Gujarat state Bhupendra Patel watches inside the laboratory of the Gujarat Biotechnology University, Gandhinagar, April 21, 2022 (AFP)
Updated on Apr 21, 2022 05:55 PM IST
ByNavtej Sarna

The other side of the Covid pandemic: Some idealism

When the new dawn breaks, as it inevitably must, it will reveal a tired world. A world in which millions will be struggling to pick up the threads of their lives, in body and in spirit, surrounded by the debris of livelihoods and the devastation of disease.

The immediate human concern that needs a different approach is health care.(Vijayanand Gupta/HT Photo)
Updated on Dec 02, 2020 08:21 AM IST
ByNavtej Sarna

Neither East, Nor West, Only China | Opinion

US policy pushed Iran to China, but it has a direct impact on India’s security, economic interests

Iran’s proposed long-term alignment with China has domestic opponents, who fear the loss of sovereignty(AP)
Updated on Jul 15, 2020 08:53 PM IST
ByNavtej Sarna

Kartarpur corridor inauguration: A day of celebration and reflection | HT Analysis

On this historic day, pilgrims will walk down the corridor with gratitude for this unique opportunity

A member of the sangat was known as bhai or brother. It became a melting pot for the high and the low, whose members mixed together without consideration of caste or status. A similar reiteration of this message came through the langar or community kitchen(REUTERS)
Updated on Nov 08, 2019 08:12 PM IST
ByNavtej Sarna

Trump finally faces the impeachment challenge, but plans to brazen it out

Democrats realised that they could not let Trump go unchallenged. But he has the numbers in the Senate

US President Donald Trump attends the first working session of the G7 Summit on August 25, 2019, Biarritz, France(Getty Images)
Updated on Oct 08, 2019 07:09 PM IST
ByNavtej Sarna

Howdy Modi: Houston, we don’t have a problem | Opinion

Personal affinity; synergy on terror, economy and defence; and Indian-Americans serve as the common thread

The most obvious takeaway from the event in Houston was the chemistry between Trump and Modi(ANI)
Updated on Sep 23, 2019 08:13 PM IST
ByNavtej Sarna

A letter from Mashobra, where time stands still

During the negotiation of the 1972 Simla Agreement, Mrs Indira Gandhi stayed in the Presidential Retreat above Mashobra.

It’s a four kilometre walk through a thick Deodhar forest from my cottage to Mashobra, an almost continuous bazaar on a ridge. The slopes fall off on either side: One towards Shimla, about 20 kilometres away; the other into a wide sunlit valley, dominated by the Shali peak(SHUTTERSTOCK)
Updated on Aug 25, 2019 09:21 AM IST
ByNavtej Sarna

Forgetting history and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919

Maybe new generations must grow up free of the memory and pain of the massacre which took place 100 years ago

Free from any discipline of the memorial to observe decorum, visitors picnic merrily in the shaded colonnades(Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jun 07, 2019 10:01 PM IST
ByNavtej Sarna
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