In college during the late 1980s, in the north Indian city of Allahabad, I heard many stories about local toughs and... READ MORE

A few years ago, one of India’s private airlines started operating a flight from Delhi to the Himalayan city of Shimla,... READ MORE

More than a century ago, China’s foremost modern intellectual, Liang Qichao, declared that his country, struggling for... READ MORE

My last column, on the strangely renewable appeal of political Islam, provoked some strong reactions from both extremes... READ MORE

During the worldwide depression of the mid-1930s, the poet and Islamic modernist Muhammad Iqbal, often called Pakistan’s... READ MORE

In recent days New York’s Occupy Wall Street protests have found sympathetic echoes in nearly all the world’s major... READ MORE

Almost 20 years ago, shortly after India’s protectionist economy was liberalized, I moved to Mashobra, a small village... READ MORE

Twenty years ago, India faced a fiscal crisis caused by profligate public spending and rising oil prices after the first... READ MORE

I am often asked, when in the U.S. or Europe, whether I feel frightened while traveling through such obviously dangerous... READ MORE

A few summers ago, I traveled to the central Swedish uplands for a conference. On the face of it, the subject “What Is... READ MORE