Nyla Ali Khan Our ancestors had agreed to support the accession to India on three conditions (a) that the State would enjoy full internal autonomy on the basis of the Instrument of Accession; (b) that India would be a democratic and secular country where rule of law would always be supreme; and (c) that the people of the State would...

Aijaz Zaka Syed Whatever you may think of the BJP and its extended Parivar, they have a sordid sense of humour. At a time when India and the world are celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi, the governing party has promised to confer the country’s highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, on his bitterest critic and the mastermind of his...