It has long been understood that any goal of strengthening federalism in India by utilising the existing state boundaries will create fissures between communities and ethnic groups. Stronger federalism, after
I was recently asked by a friend to write a story, 'an imaginative, creative one'. There have been those who have remonstrated at the ease with which I
Concert pianist Neil Nongkynrih's first rendezvous with opera – Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten at London's English National Opera House, in 1990 – was unfulfilling. In fact, he
Acho Namgyal: Shey Kyi Jinpa
Directed by Sonam Tashi and Eric Henningsen
ION, 2010
Sonam Tashi, popularly called Acho Danny, was a young man when he first went out in
On 11 June 2010, a bright midsummer evening in Moscow, the spectacular crystal chandeliers in the opulent Hall of Columns are ablaze with light in celebration of Russia Day. It
The crisis in Manipur is based in the Imphal government's inability to regard all the state's population as its own, and its indifference towards Naga concerns.
On 7 June, 25 years and six months after the Bhopal gas disaster, Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari sentenced former Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) chairman Keshub Mahindra and
Dhivehi Observer, 3 July 2010
Constitutional crisis? Power struggle? Encroachment of one power over the other? However one may define what is going on in the Maldives, there is one
The end of the blockade in Manipur has succeeded only in increasing longstanding polarisation – political, ethnic, territorial and otherwise. But such dynamics have been on display throughout much of the
Of the two largest Southasian deltas, one flourishes as the other faces the threat of being overrun by the sea.
At a time when melting glaciers, shrinking coastal lands, depleting
