M. J. Akbar
Role of judiciary vital in bringing terrorists to justice: Gov
Former Director of Intelligence Bureau Shyamal Datta, Defence analyst Uday Bhaskar, senior journalist M J Akbar, Director General of Police A N Roy and a large number of citizens and...
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'Talks about talks'
...a breakthrough? "You don't need a sting operation to find out what Ms Rao will say," Indian commentator MJ Akbar writes in the Times of India. "She has no option except to hammer...
"Islamabad wants to discuss the Kashmir issue, and at the same time talk about river water sharing, the Siachen glacier, Sir Creek [boundary dispute], travel and trade between India and Pakistan." So when the two foreign secretaries - India's Nirupama Rao and Pakistan's Salman Bashir - sit across from each other can we expect a breakthrough? "You don't need a sting operation to find out what Ms Rao will say," Indian commentator MJ Akbar writes in the Times of India. "She has no option except to hammer away at terrorism and the 'war by other means' that Pakistan launched after its failure to seize the Kashmir valley by irregular and then regular forces in 1947-48."
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Maiden 'Doha Debates' in India to discuss treatment given to Muslims
...of State for Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot and distinguished journalist M J Akbar will be speaking against the motion while Seema Mustafa, who has...
M. J. Akbar
...the post and quit politics in December 1992 and returned to journalism and full time writing. In 1993, M J Akbar started a new media company with the aim of creating India's first...
Obama's False Ally
AP Photo Is the president's Afghanistan timetable about victory there in 2011-or here in 2012? M.J. Akbar on Obama's cynical calculation, and his missed chance to get India fighting on his...
Mumbai's Dangerous Amnesia
...reaction to the terrorist assault on Mumbai a year ago today is an invitation to another attack, says M.J. Akbar. Delhi: The ebb from outrage to rage, its decline to umbrage, and then...
The Great Fallacy of Obama's War
...in a classic sentence: "They are demanding unicorns in Kabul. " Touche. Well known Indian journalist M.J. Akbar is the editor of Covert, a fortnightly magazine of current affairs,...
India's 'Frontier Gandhi'
...the more charismatic Gandhi. "Even history becomes an exercise in brand building," says Indian journalist M.J. Akbar, one of many people McLuhan interviewed for her film. But Khan never...
Jaswant Singh to 're-launch' his book in Mumbai
...discussion on his controversial book, 'Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence'. Eminent journalist MJ Akbar, filmamker Mahesh Bhatt, lawyer Harish Salve and Sunil Khilnani will be part...
Hugh Grant and Cate Blanchett film of Lady Edwina Mountbatten love affair halted
...films on figures from the ruling family need the party's permission to be made in India. Nehru's biographer M J Akbar believes the prying into and sensationalising of a friendship would...
India halts Lady Mountbatten 'love affair' movie
...Edwina Mountbatten. The official version of their relationship describes it as intense but platonic. M J Akbar, Nehru's biographer, was consulted by the director but was later told the...
Film reignates Indian passions over Mountbatten affair
...the official versions of their relationship which portray it as intense but platonic. Nehru's biographer M J Akbar was consulted by the director but later told the film had been...
