Ashwin Sanghi

Aug 19, 2024 | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Ashwin Sanghi

The Bangladesh crisis has brought out the complex nature of Indo-US relationship. But this is of a piece with India’s age-old norms of statecraft, codified by ChanakyaChanakya, the master of statecraft, provided an ancient framework for foreign policy in his Arthashastra. He suggested that states pursue foreign policies that protect their interests and security on some issues while recognising that other states will do the same.

Aug 19, 2024 | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Ashwin Sanghi

The Bangladesh crisis has brought out the complex nature of Indo-US relationship. But this is of a piece with India’s age-old norms of statecraft, codified by ChanakyaChanakya, the master of statecraft, provided an ancient framework for foreign policy in his Arthashastra. He suggested that states pursue foreign policies that protect their interests and security on some issues while recognising that other states will do the same.

Apr 13, 2024 | newindianexpress.com | Ashwin Sanghi |Madhulika Liddle

Detective fiction is riddled with flawed cops. Ian Rankin’s DI Rebus, PD James’s Adam Dalgleish, Charles Willeford’s Hoke Moseley, and—closer home—Anita Nair’s Borei Gowda: all prove, in their own way, that fictional detectives need not be paragons. If anything, a detective with weaknesses and flaws is perhaps better equipped to understand a flawed world, and to make sense of the chaos with which they must deal. Prakash ‘Kutta’ Kadam, debuting in Ashwin Sanghi’s Razor Sharp, is one such cop.

Jan 21, 2024 | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Ashwin Sanghi

Inauguration of Ram Mandir will conclude a tale that began in 1528 – when a Babur general Mir Baqi ostensibly pulled down a temple that marked Ram’s birthplace to build Babri Masjid. In 1858, a group of Nihang Sikhs wrote ‘Ram’ at a point inside the mosque. A chabutra (platform) was also constructed in the courtyard. In 1885, a civil suit filed in Faizabad sought permission to build a temple. In 1949, Ram Lalla’s idols were left beneath the mosque’s central dome.

Oct 23, 2023 | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Ashwin Sanghi

Ask the most vociferous supporters of the Palestinian cause and they will tell you that Israel is a coloniser, one that deprived Palestinians of their lands. They argue that the region had been under Ottoman rule until World War I and that Jews were thrust upon Muslim lands by an unfair Balfour Declaration of 1917 that envisioned “a national home for the Jewish people”. But if we assume the coloniser’s contention to be true, then we must also ask who ruled before the Ottomans.