Politics

Japan's justice minister Minoru Yanagida resigned in November 2010 after joking that his job required remembering only two phrases.

The Niira Radia tapes — nearly 5,900 intercepted calls placed before the Supreme Court in November 2010 — exposed the lobbyist networks behind the 2G scandal.

India and Pakistan agreed to tone down the aggressive Wagah border ceremony after soldiers complained the high goose-stepping was wrecking their knees.

Nepal planned to import India's Haryana and Sahiwal cow breeds to lift dairy output — a deal as much about shared heritage as milk.

The Louisiana governor — touted as a future president since 2007 — said in November 2010 he wouldn't seek the 2012 GOP nomination.

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.

Obama told the Indian parliament in November 2010 that a stable Pakistan serves India's interests. Logically sound — and operationally complicated.

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.

India and Britain have never quite built a relationship to match their people-to-people ties. Empire, migration, and the almost-special relationship.

In 2010 Manmohan Singh quietly asked his cabinet to stop naming every scheme after the Nehru-Gandhi family — the politest rebellion Delhi had ever seen.

In the 2010 Bihar assembly elections, women outvoted men — 54.85% to 50.77% — quietly rewriting the state's political arithmetic as the fear factor faded.

They are called half widows — women in Kashmir whose husbands vanished in the conflict, stuck in legal limbo: no death certificate, no inheritance, no way

When India's tennis star married Pakistan's cricket star Shoaib Malik in April 2010, nationalists on both sides fumed — but the real story was simpler and

Does Barack Obama feel the economic pain of ordinary Americans? An editorial look at the empathy gap between his rhetoric and lived reality in 2010.

In autumn 2010 Kashmir was rocked by street unrest and a Delhi speech that sparked sedition complaints — questions nobody in power wanted to answer.