In the run-up to Burma’s fraught polls, some of the junta’s leading cheerleaders are Western governments who are bending over backwards to justify their stance.
In 2006, Britain's Home Office reported that 8.7 percent of residents of England and Wales used cannabis. This is an unexpected downward trend; in 2004, when the
Come with me early this upcoming winter for a trip through backwater history, across borders and ecological zones, across fields, rivers, forests, gorges – and to confront the invasion of modern
Four-wheelers whiz past
To collect and convert
Every drop of sweat
Into cash and profit.
– Ramesh Dutt Dubey in Teji aur paisa
Words change their meanings over time. Malls
The statistics are chilling. Over a span of 12 years – from 1997 to 2008 – almost two lakh farmers in India committed suicide. Equally well documented are the links between these
Mention the Indian Northeast and, for most, some searing images immediately come to mind. One of those, perhaps, is of a group of nude women protestors in front of the
Running into problems of supply even as the military establishment begins to import drone technology, India is working full speed to develop its own line of unmanned aerial vehicles.
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As the day of reckoning on the Ayodhya dispute draws near, Sangh Parivar organisations have again begun chanting slogans for a Ram temple on the site, despite the fact that
´These instruments, they demand a lot. She demands a price every time she has to come out of the bag,' Imla Santappa Halsapor says, lovingly caressing the hollow drum
Nearly six years ago now, I travelled through Tamil Nadu immediately after the tsunami of 2004. There was tragedy and reconstruction, the spirit of volunteers and the often haphazard nature
