Usually, legends have a larger-than-life aura around them. They are masters of all they survey. While this may be the general trajectory, it does not explain how legends are born
The West Bengal Chief Minister and the ruling Left Front (LF) government's former poet-commissar, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, translator of Mayakovsky, is busy with another kind of poetry these days.
The undeclared Eelam War IV in Sri Lanka shows no signs of abating. The Ceasefire Agreement, whatever is left of it, is enervated and made more irrelevant daily. Violence in
Arreh! Arreh! Kya baat!
Readers who have a Hindostani (Hindi-Urdu) heritage will have no difficulty following those exclamations, but they never stop and consider that these are alien terms to
Indians need no longer worry that their country has 'made it', when The Times of London advises Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime-Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown to pay heed
Even as Southasia's energy-strapped, fast-growing economies have led many to wonder whether antagonistic neighbours may be pushed together into forced cooperation, on the eastern edge of the region
The Indian position towards Burma is characterised by a paradox. Across the political spectrum, civil society and media, there is support for the Burmese democratic movement. People sympathise with Daw
If you want to see the most brutal dictator in the world at present, go to Rajghat in Delhi, the site where Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was cremated on 31 January
In an old myth of the Subcontinent, a giant bird or demon swallows the moon, plunging the earth into darkness. In this painting by Sabir Nazar, however, most of the
The conflict between Shias and Sunnis, though ancient in its origins, has come to the fore with dramatic intensity on the international stage with the execution of ousted Iraqi dictator
INDIA/PAKISTAN
Never in the past two decades has the situation been as favourable as now for progress on one of the most intractable Southasian conflicts of our times. We
