Some years back, Oman made an unusual request to India. The oil-rich West Asian country was interested in acquiring four pure-bred animals of the Tharparkar cattle breed found only in
The dates for the peace talks in Thailand between Colombo and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been fixed for 16-18 September, according to a statement issued by
The words of Jigar Muradabadi can perhaps best summarise the loss of Kaifi: "Jaan ke min jumlaye khasane maikhana mujhe / Muddaton roya karenge jaam-o-paimana mujhe".
Kaifi Azmi was
An ancient outpost of the Hindu world is under threat from banal conformity, and the traditional Legong of Bali is simply turning into background music. The tourists are gone, but
On 26 December 2001, a woman and her 13-yearold daughter were allegedly attacked and gang-raped by eight young men from Sovima village near Dimapur, the cultural capital of Nagaland. The
The Subcontinent's inheritance of traditional knowledge and methods is safe. Think again.
Thirty years after developing countries were first made to believe that their economic interests were perfectly
As the tiger begins to change its stripes, it must grapple with the shifting terrain of the jungle. The Sri Lankan Dalit movement has been subjugated by the larger cause of Tamil nationalism all these years. It is time for its revival.
Recent events in Sri Lanka suggest that government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leaders are discovering the complexity of their evolving roles and slowing adjusting to them. President
"Can you tell me why, in 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our land, conquered our minds? From
The two-nation theory is used as a form of social control by Pakistan's elite.
The single most important event in Pakistani his tory is the secession of the
If we had a clearer picture of how India changed after independence, we might have a better sense of where it is going today. But how to encompass half a century's history of hundreds of millions of people? Like a geologist analysing cross-sections of strata to understand how rock was formed and wha
