Between two worlds
Somalee Banerjee
One of Mirza Ghalib's ghazals has a line that poignantly captures the dilemma of the Southasian migrant. 'Imaan mujhe roke hai to
Around the middle of the 19th century, two men set out from a village in Hooghly district of what is today West Bengal, striding towards their future. Their journey, almost
Ben Campbell is an anthropologist with the University of Durham and a longtime visitor to Nepal. In 2007, he spent time talking with and filming villagers living in the harsh
As Burma's first election in twenty years approached, the streets of Rangoon and other cities were awash with images of a golden lion. This was the insignia of
Immediately upon being freed from house arrest, Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, vowed to continue to fight for human rights and democracy. On 14 November, her
INDIA
To the pole!
India launched its first-ever scientific research mission to the South Pole in November. A team of eight scientists from the Goa-based National Centre for Antarctic and
After two decades of refusing to honour the results of the last elections, held back in 1990, the recent electoral exercise in Burma gave plenty of lead-up time for long-suffering
It is a striking phenomenon, but also a fairly well-engrained one. When they migrate overseas, many first-generation Southasians become more overtly nationalistic than their homebound friends and families, probably as
Words do not always liberate
Sometimes they also imprison
I am in search of such a line
That will set me free
From the web of suffocating sentences.
– Punjabi poet
