My friend Patt Cottingham, a branding expert, has created a year-end image of the changeover -- a two-way look at goodbye and hello.
New York Times | Thomas Fuller | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media
MUMBAI, India -- When the gunfire started at Mumbai's main train terminal last month, Sebastian D'souza was well placed to respond. A month after the...
Father Paul Mayer | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
In Afghanistan we find a bloody quagmire so hopeless that ordinary Afghanis are not sure who to fear more -- the American occupiers or the often ruthless Taliban.
washingtonpost.com | Emily Wax | Posted 01.19.2009 | World
MUMBAI -- On a leafy hospital campus in this still-scarred city, one of the victims of last month's terrorist attacks is making a recovery. He's a chu...
Eric Margolis | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
Special for the Huffington Post Eric S. Margolis December 18, 2008 The bitter struggle over the beautiful Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir is the ...
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 01.17.2009 | World
As evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 01.17.2009 | World
Indian Muslims have been marching overtime on the streets to side with religious plurality, demonstrate solidarity with fellow Indian citizens and vocally denounce the attacks.
Vamsee Juluri | Posted 01.17.2009 | World
What Mumbai ended up looking like to viewers and readers in the West was something far removed from the magnitude of its loss, and from the realities of fact and perspective.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 01.15.2009 | World
Tensions between India and Pakistan are at their highest levels since 2001, when a suicide attack on the Indian parliament was carried out -- allegedly by groups based in Pakistan.
AP | RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM | Posted 01.13.2009 | World
MUMBAI, India — The gunman captured in last month's Mumbai attacks had originally intended to seize hostages and outline demands in a series of ...
Arundhati Roy | Posted 01.12.2009 | World
November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan, and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
What is it about faith that made it suddenly re-emerge as the driving force in American politics and in the politics of the Islamic countries?
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
We have to do something about our current situation. We're spending more and more on defense and purchasing less and less security for it.
Sunil Adam | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
What ensured the stupendous success of the Mumbai terrorists was the saturated coverage by international television networks, fueled by a weak news cycle over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Parvez Sharma | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
On this Eid-al-Adha, the Muslim festival of the sacrifice, I wonder what aspect of my identity troubles me more: the Indian, the Muslim, or both.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
Beyond the Mumbai attacks, the larger issue looms of what to do and how the U.S. is going to deal with global terrorism.
AP | MUNEEZA NAQVI | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
MUMBAI, India — Police released names and photographs of suspected Islamic militants who staged the bloody three-day siege of Mumbai and said th...
Derek Flood | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
When a local ABC news crew began to interview the Indian family at the next table, I knew the militants had really awoken the... global media in a way their last foray in India did not.
NY Times | ERIC SCHMITT, MARK MAZZETTI and JANE PERLEZ | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group suspected of conducting the Mumbai attacks, has quietly gained strength in recent yea...
Gotham Chopra | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment
Today I had a chance to talk to Danny Boyle the filmmaker behind Slumdog about not just the film, but the deeper story and context behind it and why he does what he does.
ROBERT F. WORTH and HARI KUMAR | ROBERT F. WORTH and HARI KUMAR | Posted 01.06.2009 | World
The Indian police foiled an attempt to destroy landmarks and wreak havoc in Mumbai early this year, breaking up a cell of Pakistani and Indian men who...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 01.05.2009 | World
They want Pakistan and India to play the blame game. They want to effectively reverse the recent progress that has made in the countries' relations. They want for Hindus in India to feel unsafe.
Marie-Lou Fernandes | Posted 01.05.2009 | World
The death toll stands at nearly 200, but like Kasab's live capture, this was yet another thing that went wrong for the terrorists who had planned for casualties to be in the thousands.
Maxwell Kennedy | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics
Since 2001, American leaders have allowed the suiciders to define the struggle. It is not the bombs of the suiciders but our reaction to these eruptions which determines victory.
Gotham Chopra | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
Throughout the independence movement in India, there had been factions urging for the separation of nations - the creation of two independent nations - one for Hindus, one for Muslims.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics