Diplomatic Musings

with Ahmed Faraz, October 1994, Islamabad AFTER joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1971 and allotment of Persian as the language to ...

A Tribute to Shri A.J. Zaidi   At the function with the Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari HAVING spent my childhood years ...

Bhagat Singh and his comrades-in-arms, Sukhdev and Rajguru have indeed come to symbolize the rarest example of the ultimate supreme sacrific...

* Published in ' Balbir Madhopuri di Svai-jeevni Chhangia Rukh da Sahitak -Samajik Mulankan ' - a socio-literary evaluation of Balb...

Excerpts: [...]‘Midnight’s Children’ to refer to those who were born to breathe in Free but Partitioned India. These children, who would be ...

The concept of instituting a memorial lecture in honour of eminent persons who have rendered service to the society has always impressed me....

On my first looking into Jagrup’s ‘Impressive Poetic-income Statement’ : My heart with joy dances and hoops At his soul’s wealth and conten...

- Lecture delivered at the Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan at New Delhi on 11 November 2006 Although it has currently become a popularly use...

Having recently joined the ranks of the senior citizens of the Republic, I have been feeling tempted to look back and forth -with all my acq...

The following article appeared in the online publication South Asia Post , July 31, 2006     Master Ashni Kumar    photographed 1957-58 I T ...

  The following article appeared in the online publication South Asia Post , June 31, 2006 T HE date of May 29, 1953 has got inscri...

Here I present a collection of articles and presentations, that I have had the opportunity to write. In the new world of internet connectivi...