India Politics

On July 13, 2011, three coordinated blasts hit Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and Dadar, killing 26. Mumbai's spirit answered — again.

July 13, 2011 · 1 min read

Jailed in the 2G case, DMK MP Kanimozhi broke down when her brother M.K. Stalin visited her at Tihar — their first meeting in over a month.

June 29, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 projection said India could become the world's second-largest trading nation by 2050. What it assumed, and what 40-year forecasts are worth.

June 23, 2011 · 1 min read

Ilyas Kashmiri was reported killed in a 2009 drone strike, then gave an interview. A June 2011 strike in South Waziristan may have finally got him.

June 4, 2011 · 1 min read

At midnight on June 4, 2011, Delhi Police stormed Ramlila Maidan with tear gas and lathis, ending Baba Ramdev's fast against black money.

June 4, 2011 · 1 min read

Baba Ramdev says he's not entering politics — just fighting corruption. In India, that distinction has never been as clean as it sounds.

June 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Their husbands went to Tihar in the 2G spectrum scam. What happens to the wives left managing the fallout, the fees, and the silence.

May 30, 2011 · 1 min read

In May 2011 Pakistan asked China to take over Gwadar port — and hinted at a naval base. Beijing said no. Inside the new Great Game.

May 30, 2011 · 16 min read

The 2011 Chicago trial of Tahawwur Rana put David Headley on the stand — airing evidence about the 26/11 attacks India couldn't get through its own courts.

May 14, 2011 · 1 min read

From Chennai to Srinagar, funeral prayers for bin Laden divided India's Muslims in May 2011 — Geelani's call, Omar Abdullah's rebuke, and quiet resistance.

May 7, 2011 · 2 min read

A catch-up phone call, a courier who drove 90 minutes to use a cellphone — and a tall man pacing a walled courtyard. How the CIA zeroed in on Abbottabad.

May 6, 2011 · 1 min read

After the SEALs left Abbottabad, cameras got inside bin Laden's compound: bloodstained floors, scattered belongings, and the wreckage of the burned helicopter.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

After the Abbottabad raid, Salman Rushdie called for Pakistan to be declared a terrorist state — the sharpest version of a question Washington was dodging.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

After the Abbottabad raid, Pakistan faced pointed questions from Washington and humiliation at home — the competence-or-complicity trap the ISI couldn't escape.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout sat about a mile from Pakistan's elite military academy — a custom-built compound with 14-foot walls and no phone or internet.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Why was bin Laden called 'Geronimo'? The raid code word, what it actually meant, and the backlash from Native Americans who found it offensive.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Days after the Abbottabad raid, a pro-Taliban party held Pakistan's first public rally honoring bin Laden — small in size, heavy in symbolism.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

The trail to bin Laden began with a courier's pseudonym and ended at an oversized compound in Abbottabad. How U.S. intelligence connected the dots.

May 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Abbottabad in May 2011. The raid, the announcement, and what his death did and didn't change.

May 1, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Pakistan's PM Gilani reportedly urged Afghan President Karzai to pivot from Washington toward Beijing — a bold but unsuccessful diplomatic play.

April 29, 2011 · 1 min read