Climate change is upon us; not just a looming threat
Intense heatwave, once a rarity, demands urgent action
By Navtej Sarna May 18, 2025
Columns
- Philip Mathew
- R. Prasannan
- Anuja Chauhan
- Bansuri Swaraj
- Namrata Zakaria
- Navtej Sarna
- Dr Mazda Turel
- Shobhaa De
- K.C. Verma
- Suresh Narayanan
- Anita Pratap
- Shashi Tharoor
- Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Barkha Dutt
- Amitabh Kant
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Swara Bhasker
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Bibek Debroy
- Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Sanjaya Baru
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
Guest Column
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The Iran nuclear deal is dead. And it is a good thing, writes Jeff Jacoby
By Jeff Jacoby April 10, 2022 -
Case for coalitions
By Marten van den Berg March 21, 2021 -
Innovate and collaborate
By Sanjaya Mariwala March 07, 2021 -
Block buster
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni March 07, 2021 -
The invisible pandemic
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni February 07, 2021 -
Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020
Navtej Sarna
Navtej Sarna is the former Ambassador of India to the US and the author, most recently, of the novel Crimson Spring.
LAST WORD
How the famed secret agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped the Soviet Union and certain death
Oleg Gordievsky is a towering figure in the world of espionage who impacted the Cold War at a crucial time
By Navtej Sarna April 20, 2025
International rules of engagement in diplomacy are no longer sacrosanct
Saying Volodymyr Zelensky invited the fire from Donald Trump and J.D. Vance is like saying that a woman invited rape by dressing provocatively
By Navtej Sarna March 23, 2025
Gaza: Home is not a building
Powerful of the world see Gaza as just land to be levelled
By Navtej Sarna February 23, 2025
Why Donald Trump covets Greenland
Threat of occupation by force is not the way
By Navtej Sarna January 26, 2025
Good fences make good neighbours
IDF boys are not coming home soon
By Navtej Sarna December 29, 2024
Hemingway’s four-decade-long love affair with Spain
Ernest Hemingway left his own indelible stamp on Spain's global perception
By Navtej Sarna November 03, 2024
Soviet Union of yore had a straightforward way of naming places
In its heyday, the Ukraina was considered an engineering marvel
By Navtej Sarna September 08, 2024
Fact-checkers and US presidential elections
Raw material that fuels fact-checking profession is unlimited
By Navtej Sarna July 14, 2024
World is losing it; we are fundamentally broken
Those shells will finish many more starving innocent refugees
By Navtej Sarna June 16, 2024
When Germany decided to go cool
One of the most conservative countries is liberalising recreational cannabis use
By Navtej Sarna May 19, 2024
Botswana's elephant dilemma
The country has 1.3 lakh elephants. Not easy for humans
By Navtej Sarna April 21, 2024
Biden-Trump rematch lacks punch
Trump’s gibes, not half as witty as Muhammad Ali’s ditties, are plumbing new depths
By Navtej Sarna March 24, 2024
Mirza Ghalib’s dilapidated haveli offers only heartbreak
This is no way to treat a national treasure
By Navtej Sarna February 25, 2024