Journalists small and mighty suffered the Emergency defiantly, then resisted and defeated plans to muzzle the press. We look towards their example in gathering dusk.

Lal Bahadur Shastri’s wartime leadership united the entire country

Some events can be confirmed only by how things unfold later

Two books blame Rao for Ayodhya; former aides spring to his defence

Vignettes from the veteran journalist's overarching autobiography, a sort of a fly-on-the-wall account from Mountbatten to Manmohan.

The Indus Water Treaty was the last piece in the long divorce between India and Pakistan

If courts must intervene in legislature, the Rajya Sabha election law is asking for it

Let alone India's war plans, did Ayub Khan even know of Bhutto's strategy?

A candle-lit vigil at Wagah is now a people's movement. Can Delhi see the light?

Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared Emergency on June 25, 1975, curbing civil liberties across the country, plunging the republic into darkness. Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar writes for Outlook what if the draconian measure had not been clamped.

The critique of secularism by Nandy et al confuses tradition with religion

JP gave the BJP legitimacy, and lived to rue it. But, even now, they can't let him be.

As with any institution, the Rajya Sabha too has been marked horribly by time

The BJP is now acting like the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which has taken off all photos of Sheikh Mujib.

Who knows which forces will operate behind the mask of foreign equity? Even terrorists can buy shares in Indian papers.

The former high commissioner to the UK on the move to get back Kohinoor

Kuldip Nayar, eminent journalist and Rajya Sabha member, spoke to Outlook about his latest book that’ll be formally released by the PM on the 25th. Excerpts

Not averse to modern tools, the activists only seek a return to the basic human ideals absent in the age of consumerism.

If the BJP abjures its communal leanings, we can move towards a two-party system, ideal for a democratic polity. But the leadership's RSS tilt belies such expectations.

...JP had lamented in his twilight years. Kuldip Nayar remembers India's last conscience-keeper.