Amazing... Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh has called Pakistan's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah "a great Indian", saying he was "demonised". In an interview to CNN-IBN channel, the former external affairs minister blamed India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the partition. "Nehru believed in a highly centralised polity. That's what he wanted India to be. Jinnah wanted a federal polity. That even Gandhi accepted. Nehru didn't. Consistently, he stood in the way of a federal India until 1947 when it became ... Read More

Karan Thapar describes Musharraf's personality in the light of his encounter with an Indian audience. Some of Mr. Thapar's observations are very interesting. I was forced to agree with him in spite of the fact that I was never a Musharraf supporter. He writes... "I have to admit, I’ve never come across someone like Pervez Musharraf. This is not necessarily a compliment. It’s simply a statement of fact. But think about it — he’s a former dictator who revels in free ... Read More