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Navtej Sarna

Navtej Sarna

Navtej Sarna is the former Ambassador of India to the US and the author, most recently, of the novel Crimson Spring.

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How Punjab is becoming an old age home

Political parties have promoted schemes that facilitate migration

By Navtej Sarna April 23, 2023

What are the implications of Sunak’s effusive overture to Macron

Greater cooperation with France is critical

By Navtej Sarna March 26, 2023

Is Nikki Haley the generational change Republicans are looking for?

Haley has kicked off her bid for the 2024 Republican nomination

By Navtej Sarna February 26, 2023

Arrogance of little achievement and cancer of entitlement

Somewhere in this rush for material success, we the people have lost something

By Navtej Sarna January 29, 2023

When Jerusalem called on Mukteshwar

A curious case of vaccine maitri and bureaucratic verve

By Navtej Sarna January 01, 2023

Donald Trump’s 1,001 insults

There is no shortage of nicknames for Trump: one website alone lists 409

By Navtej Sarna November 27, 2022

Will Camilla wear the Kohinoor?

Charles is occupied by thoughts of his coronation next May

By Navtej Sarna October 30, 2022

The urbane and dignified Naresh Kumar

Kumar’s passing was tucked away amidst the hoopla surrounding Federer’s retirement

By Navtej Sarna October 02, 2022

How and why Japan wants its youth to booze more

Alcohol taxes have now plummeted to 1.7 per cent in Japan

By Navtej Sarna September 04, 2022

Navtej Sarna on the diplomat as scholar

Diplomats bring their intellectual rigour to their research of archival material

By Navtej Sarna August 07, 2022

Navtej Sarna on importance of a few good men in US

Polarisation in the US did not start with Trump or January 6

By Navtej Sarna July 10, 2022

Navtej Sarna writes on the transfer of 2 officers to Ladakh, Arunachal

Rocky didn’t notice the journalist in the upper stands of the stadium

By Navtej Sarna June 12, 2022

Navtej Sarna on Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and The Big Jubilee Read

A panel has put together 70 books from Commonwealth nations, including India

By Navtej Sarna May 15, 2022

Navtej Sarna on surviving global warming

The move away from fossil fuels is not happening fast

By Navtej Sarna April 17, 2022

Remembering the Poles who received kindness from India during WWII

Five hundred orphaned Poles became the ‘Children of Jamnagar’

By Navtej Sarna March 20, 2022
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