Like Myth & Mother
by Sumathy Sivamohan
Sirahununi, 2008
Like Myth & Mother is a collection of 25 poems, prose, graphics, dialogue and theatre lyrics by Sumathy Sivamohan, set in
Romancing with Life:
An autobiography
by Dev Anand
Penguin/Viking, 2007
Dev Anand has always been better known for his wigs than his films, his looks than his talents, and
It would seem that an event with the United Nations logo plastered all over it should inherently try to be representative. As such, it seemed logical to assume that all
Since 28 May 2008, when the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal was born, a kingdom has begun to disappear in earnest. The departure of the ex-king and queen from the
The current confusion in Nepal is not unique in the context of the chaotic nation-building processes of the rest of Southasia. Yet, the country's 19th-century history was significantly
In a dimly lit room at Punjab University in Lahore, the library staff sits amidst stacks of centuries-old Sanskrit manuscripts inscribed on strips of palm leaves and faded paper. Mechanically,
On 17 August 1947, after just three days of independence in Pakistan, Muhammad Abdullah Quereshi, a politician, published an article in an Urdu newspaper titled "A Need to Change
Sixty years ago, at the time of Indian Independence, we in the region inherited a history of the Subcontinent shaped by two substantial views of the past: the colonial and
Some years ago, a friend from Calcutta, a veteran journalist who had covered the Gorkhaland agitations of the 1980s, had this to say about the relationship between the Gorkha National
Art: Bilash Rai
In 1981, Barack Obama visited his mother and sister in Indonesia. On his return to the US, he stopped for three weeks in Karachi, from where he
