Somewhere in international waters, close to the Pakistani coast, a Predator drone is launched from the USS Abraham Lincoln. The pilotless craft heads up over the beaches of Balochistan, and
Susurrus in the Skull
Rabindra K Swain
Authorspress, 2008
Even today, the situation surrounding English-language writing in Orissa is yet to progress beyond the scattered forays that were witnessed
Dateline 1857:
Revolt against the Raj
by Rudrangshu Mukherjee & Pramod Kapoor
Roli Books, 2008
From one of the most well-informed historians of the 1857 uprisings comes a lush
In executing the 'Bali bombers' – Amrozi, Mukhlas and Samudra – on 9 November 2008, the Indonesian government seems to have fulfilled their desire to become martyrs. However, the executions
In 1933, the great economist John Maynard Keynes said, "I sympathise with those who would minimise, rather than with those who would maximise, economic entanglement among nations … let goods
The problem of conceptualising Asian-ness is that it is not a question of finding similarities, but of envisioning the coexistence of diversities.
All one, perhaps –
bell, mountain, tree
and