Children's literature in Southasia continues to remain a poor cousin of 'serious' literature for adults, in the minds of both authors and readers. This is despite
The death of Professor S R Siras, a reader in the Department of Modern Indian Languages at Aligarh Muslim University, has not seen the end of the well-deserved negative attention
"Impossible is made possible!" intoned Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani, now the most powerful person in Pakistan, in jubilant reaction to the National Assembly's passing of
She was never much of a communicator, though she could coax anything from the ground. Vegetables, fruits, even some strange hybrids that she created over the years – the cool dankness
The 6 April killing of 76 personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in a Maoist attack in Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh, is seen by many as a turning
There is no statuette
to measure the miles lovers
cover to torch a police station,
their down or breasts not fully grown
as the ideals they die for.
Hunger too
Some sad news to report about The Hindu, a newspaper which fortunately has not lived up to its name, in the way that modern-day Hindutva defines it. On 5 March
Bangladesh
AL Government bans Air-Conditioners in Dhaka between 6 and 11 pm
In its latest move to control the stifling electricity shortage in Dhaka, the Awami League government has imposed
Pakistan's opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has recently been giving new meaning to the epithet 'power-hungry'. At a Muslim League rally where Sharif was speechifying on corruption
BANGLADESH
Paralysed Bangla
Where the Bangladeshi government fails in supplying power to its people, it does not quite make up for in its attempt to find a solution to the
The controversial 'arrest' of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Raju Baruah in early December caused a localised storm that nonetheless quickly
