Articles; previously published.

SECTION ONE
ISLAM AND MUSLIMS
1 A Liberal Islam in South Asia
2 A Call for Reflection
3 Prophet Muhammad
4 Muhammad and Europe
5 The Danish Cartoons
6 Muslims of the West
7 The Quran
8 How to Read Scriptures
9 Islam: A Western Perspective
10 Satan in Islamic Mysticism
11 The Martyrdom of Mansur al-Hallaj
12 Sarmad, the Martyr
13 Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer
14 The Islamic State: A Mirage
SECTION TWO
SOUTH ASIAN THEMES
15 The Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case: Demise of the Left
in Pakistan
16 Urdu and Secularism
17 Urdu Poetry and Indian Muslims
18 Rajeshwar Dayal's Memoirs
19 Sultan Mohammad Khan's Memoirs
20 Jamsheed Marker's Memoirs: The Indo-Soviet Treaty 1971
21 Kissinger and India's Bomb
22 India's Secrets in Foreign Archives
23 Nehru's Approach to Civil Liberties and the Communists
24 L.K. Advani: Desperate Ambition
25 The BJP's Psyche and the Bomb
26 The Chandrachud Commission's Report on the Murder of
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
27 India's Talkative Generals
SECTION THREE
RAVAGES OF THE COLD WAR
28 The Birth of Israel: Origin of a Crime
29 The US and Iran
30 Roots of Suicide Terrorism
31 The Rise of America's Neocons
32 The Demise of US Diplomacy
33 Afghanistan Declassified
34 From the Second World War to the Cold War
35 •Archival Disclosures on the Cold War
36 Losing the Soul in a Cold War
37 Hans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Giant
38 Morality and Foreign Policy
39 Academia and Foreign Policy
40 Indian Thinking on Foreign Policy
41 Travails of an MEA Watcher
42 Walter Lippmann: A Philosopher and a Journalist
43 James Reston
44 The Truth and the Diplomat
45 The US's Role in South Asia
46 The End of the Cold War, 1989
47 Diplomacy and Democracy
48 The Media and Diplomacy
49 Making Foreign Policy
50 Track Two Diplomacy
51 OIC and India: The Rabat Debacle