Navtej Sarna on two men and their legendary bookstores
It was the fall of 1983. On my first visit to Paris, short on money but high on
By Navtej Sarna April 18, 2021
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Anita Pratap
- Shobhaa De
- Anuja Chauhan
- Navtej Sarna
- Prasannan
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Sanjaya Baru
- Swara Bhasker
- Barkha Dutt
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Shashi Tharoor
- Bibek Debroy
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- Geeti Sen
- Vandana Kohli
- Sadhguru
- Gen Bikram Singh
- Manu Chandra
- Sanjna Kapoor
- Jerry Pinto
- Saina Nehwal
- Nandita Das
- Sania Mirza
- Bala Ambati
- Maroof Raza
- Ajish P Joy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Hemant Oberoi
- Binayak Sen
- Patrick French
- Nupur Sharma
- Derek O Brien
- Sourav Ganguly
Guest Column
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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 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019
Navtej Sarna
Navtej Sarna is an author, translator, diplomat and was India's Ambassador to the US and Israel. He also served as the high commissioner to the Court of St James's.
LAST WORD
A vaccine for all reasons
The Golan Heights hide their tensions well. The road sweeps languidly through
By Navtej Sarna March 21, 2021
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Call it a diplomat’s lucky day: in Washington in the spring of 2017, I found myself
By Navtej Sarna February 21, 2021
Spies in the cold
Coincidences matter. As the world raced to the end of 2020 like a parched man to an
By Navtej Sarna January 24, 2021
The problems of plenty
And when the snow falls, you’re found in St Moritz With the others of the jet
By Navtej Sarna December 27, 2020
When Lords is not cricket
Just when we as a nation were wondering how Indian would Kamala Harris be, an
By Navtej Sarna November 29, 2020
Trust, but prepare
CNN’s fact-checker Daniel Dale, clarifying details after the Kamala Harris-Mike
By Navtej Sarna November 01, 2020
A mirror for Dr Kissinger
So Richard Nixon found Indian women unattractive and sexless. We shall not ask what
By Navtej Sarna October 04, 2020
Of borders, walls and barriers
A closely guarded barrier—part concrete wall, part fence—separates the West Bank
By Navtej Sarna September 06, 2020
In droll Londongrad
London steals a march over Washington, DC with its drollery, if that is the mot
By Navtej Sarna August 09, 2020
Kiss, tell, earn
But for the occasional, accidental one, we do not get too many revealing books by
By Navtej Sarna July 12, 2020
Winter of Warsaw 1985
Pandemic pictures have given way to visuals of spiralling protests against the
By Navtej Sarna June 14, 2020
On human dignity
Grandpa buried his pa with his own hand, done it in dignity, an’ shaped the grave
By Navtej Sarna May 17, 2020
Any man’s death diminishes me
This too shall pass, though the price will be high. Human nature will bounce back.
By Navtej Sarna April 19, 2020
Shades of blue
Green has long been part of the strategic lexicon. Green politics, green banking,
By Navtej Sarna March 14, 2020