Jun 18, 2006
Palestine News, July 2006 Presumably because I’m Jewish and write about India, I received an invitation to a ‘Jewish-Indian Reception’ held earlier this year at Columbia University in New York. “Did you know that Jews have lived in India for over 2000 years without any signs of Anti-Semitism?” the invitation began. “Did you know that… Read more
Apr 16, 2004
The Hindu, 16 April, 2004 The India-Pakistan series has been nearly everything a committed neutral could ask for. There have been no dead matches and no inflammatory incidents. For the most part, the contest has been closely fought and unpredictable, enriched by a succession of gritty individual performances. In the Test matches we’ve been able to savour… Read more
Mar 10, 2004
India’s first cricket tour of Pakistan in 15 years brings political opportunity and danger in equal measure The Guardian, 10 March, 2004 India’s superstar cricketers – among the country’s most famous faces – will today visit Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his Delhi residence, to receive his official blessing before boarding a chartered flight… Read more
Jul 2, 2002
Socialist Review, July 2002 We are being told that we can breathe a sigh of relief. India and Pakistan, it seems, have stepped back from the brink of the worst human catastrophe since the Second World War. As so often in the past, people around the planet are being assured that they can ‘learn to… Read more
May 24, 2002
The British Library’s new exhibition on the East India Company does not tell the whole story The Guardian, 24 May 2002 According to the British Library, its new exhibition on the East India Company shows “how the work of 11 men, from a cold, wet and then relatively poor country, paved the way for what… Read more
Dec 21, 2001
The Guardian, December 21, 2001 If any of the England cricketers currently struggling with the spin bowlers in Bangalore have had a chance to see Lagaan, the Bollywood crossover hit about a Raj-era grudge match between heroic Gujerati villagers and dastardly Anglo-imperialists, they’ll know that they are merely bit players in a long-running national psychodrama…. Read more
Nov 24, 2001
Guardian, 24 November 2001 Thomas Friedman’s New York Times article (Guardian 23 November) on Muslims in India exemplifies the kind of disinformation that has kept people in the US in the dark about global realities. Among the recent events that Friedman omits to report are: the desecration of the Taj Mahal by activists of the… Read more
