In South Asia, 75 years is not a young age to die. And Krishna Kant, India's Vice President had nothing left to live for. Perhaps he had harboured
After Pokhran II in May 1998, the saligh parivar in India wanted to distribute the radioactive sand of the Thar desert as the symbolic prasad of India's atomic
Jawaharlal Nehru would have been shocked. His daughter Indira would have been outraged. Rajiv Gandhi would have been paralysed. But the person in charge of carrying forward the Nehru-Gandhi legacy
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of deadland, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain
(With God hijacked by the reactionary rabble, the only hope is Left)
Friedrich Nietzsche's declaration of God's death was highly premature. Were He dead for good,
It's truce time in Sri Lanka. Even though the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been observing a unilateral ceasefire since Christmas Eve, which the government had
