I was recently asked by a friend to write a story, 'an imaginative, creative one'. There have been those who have remonstrated at the ease with which I
Concert pianist Neil Nongkynrih's first rendezvous with opera – Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten at London's English National Opera House, in 1990 – was unfulfilling. In fact, he
The best news for any eight-year-old boy could be to be told that he does not have to go to school. Such news would undoubtedly be even more exciting if
Acho Namgyal: Shey Kyi Jinpa
Directed by Sonam Tashi and Eric Henningsen
ION, 2010
Sonam Tashi, popularly called Acho Danny, was a young man when he first went out in
On 11 June 2010, a bright midsummer evening in Moscow, the spectacular crystal chandeliers in the opulent Hall of Columns are ablaze with light in celebration of Russia Day. It
The crisis in Manipur is based in the Imphal government's inability to regard all the state's population as its own, and its indifference towards Naga concerns.
On 7 June, 25 years and six months after the Bhopal gas disaster, Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari sentenced former Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) chairman Keshub Mahindra and
The end of the blockade in Manipur has succeeded only in increasing longstanding polarisation – political, ethnic, territorial and otherwise. But such dynamics have been on display throughout much of the
Of the two largest Southasian deltas, one flourishes as the other faces the threat of being overrun by the sea.
At a time when melting glaciers, shrinking coastal lands, depleting
The shocking daylight slaying of Madan Tamang, the main Opposition leader of Darjeeling, in the heart of Darjeeling town on 21 May, has plunged hill politics to a new low.
