World

Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.

November 16, 2010 · 2 min read

In India for Bigg Boss 4, Pamela Anderson wrote to PM Manmohan Singh calling on Indians to reject all leather products and end animal suffering.

November 15, 2010 · 1 min read

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

November 14, 2010 · 1 min read

On 11/11 — four singles — China celebrates singlehood with self-gifting. How Alibaba turned a joke holiday into a retail juggernaut.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

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

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

While Obama toured Asia, David Cameron raced to China with Britain's largest-ever business delegation. The great powers were all courting the same customer.

November 7, 2010 · 1 min read

Fresh off his midterm 'shellacking,' Obama landed in Mumbai in November 2010 — selling India to American business, and American business to himself.

November 7, 2010 · 1 min read

On November 2, 2010, Nikki Haley became the first Indian American governor in US history. What her South Carolina win meant — and didn't.

November 3, 2010 · 1 min read

In 2010 two driverless vans drove 13,000 km from Italy to China. Nobody paid much attention then. The future of the automobile was already on the road.

October 29, 2010 · 1 min read

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

October 27, 2010 · 1 min read

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.

October 27, 2010 · 1 min read