In reading the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema descriptions of Shyam Benegal's renowned trilogy – Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975) and Manthan (1976) – one might be led to imagine the '
The romantics
Who believed
The sun can sulk
The moon can hide
– Shillong-based poet Temsula Ao in "Stone-people from Lungterok"
When the funeral cortège of Girija Prasad Koirala
In the labyrinthine corridors of 'Af-Pak' politics, an arrest is not an arrest and a crackdown is not a crackdown. Currently, Afghanistan and Pakistan are engaged in a
For helping to pony up a running cost of roughly INR 13 million per day, the average taxpayer of India would understandably hope that the halls of the country'
The 20 March passing of Girija Prasad Koirala marks the end of an era in Southasian politics, for he was the lone national-level survivor whose public life reached as far
Any democratic society faces the challenge of harmonising two essentially contradictory political concepts: first, equality before the law irrespective of religion, caste, race and gender; and second, social justice at
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TP and Isratine
Any journalist, businessman, NGO worker or academic working in a country where they do not speak the local language will know that a good interpreter is
