You can be a republican and still be nostalgic when a historical institution bites the dust. That is what Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy is about to do. The New
We are on our way towards the beaches of Vagator from Mapusa, Goa. Along the way, we pass by so closely to Anjuna village's St Michael's
My only sin was my profession, for which the previous rulers made my life miserable," says Gulzar Alam, the heartthrob of scores of Pashto music lovers. In 2003, the
The phone rings in a one-room office in Navyug Mansion, located in the Grant Road area of south Bombay. Forty-nine-year-old Shivaji Sakaram Sawant, who has been delivering dabbas for the
Land, land everywhere, but not a patch for those who till. Indeed, land ownership in most districts of Nepal's southern Tarai districts remains highly skewed in favour of
For thirty years, modern Nepal was ruled under a royal autocracy. Then, starting in 1990, the people began to experience inefficient, perhaps, but real democracy, through the medium of political
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) chief ideologue Baburam Bhattarai, 54, won a seat to the Constituent Assembly from Gorkha, defeating his nearest rival by a massive margin of 41,000
Endlessly pestered with requests to arrange an 'exclusive' interview with his boss on the campaign trail, Pratap came up with several ways to evade the media: stop picking
The Co-wife and Other Stories
by Premchand
translated and introduced by Ruth Vanita
Penguin Modern Classics, 2008
Ruth Vanita's fine translation of selected writings is a wonderful opportunity
Ex-revolutionaries begin to fear revolution.
Mere mention of the term,
Makes them shiver in trepidation.
– Pawan Karan in "Range Adak"
The Rolpali Revolutionaries – call them Roarists, in recognition
