200 km by cycle with few supplies and no money.
Wanderlust had been boiling within me for the last three years. Eventually, it became so intense that I quit my
The results of the elections to the 15th Lok Sabha were announced on 16 May, following a month-long phased polling exercise. Within two hours of the counting, it became clear
To understand the current conflict in Swat, one has to look back to 1897
"A year hath passed since Aurangzeb is encamped against us,
Disordered and perplexed in appearance,
We are certainly holding our own in the worldwide competition of absurd laws.
In the beginning was the Preamble to the Constitution, with the people, in 1950, proclaiming India to
On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, as seminar attendees around the world parleyed about whether the free media was actually free, journalists in the Swat Valley were more likely
Following shelling by the security forces in Jammu & Kashmir, 11 people were killed on 18 September 1997 in Arin, in Bandipore of Baramullah district. Eleven years later, the victims&
Unexpected political developments have, again, dragged Nepal towards uncertainty and chaos. On 3 M ay, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal made a unilateral decision to sack Chief of the Army
Burma
Fishy analysis
Reports of media censorship from Burma are hardly surprising, but the iron-fisted Censor Board has recently chosen an unlikely target: the fishing industry. The clampdown was put
A certain desperation for some signs of hope on Afghanistan has accorded a broad-based welcome to Barack Obama's new policy, which appears to contain the promise of wide-ranging
Father told me that stealing is wrong. But what the hell, let´s hear it for Roopa of Hanumanthanagar, who Deccan Herald reports has been "resorting to vehicle-lifting as
The Decaan Herald reports a brewing legislative battle in Karnataka on the subject of home toilets. The 1993 Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act lays down that you cannot contest village panchayat
