As long as caste continues as the overwhelming factor in India, all-round sporting glory will be elusive, and Indian teams will continue performing disastrously globally.
Indian cricket changed overnight. All it took was the excitement and energy following one victory: India's World Cup win on 25 June 1983. That evening, what used to
For people who live outside of the Kashmir Valley, cinema halls are generally places of lively entertainment, abuzz with queues and excited talk of the latest blockbusters. In Srinagar, however,
Feryal Ali Gauhar's new novel is an unmitigated tale of horror – bestial fact stacked upon bestial fact, evoking revulsion and nausea. The book's jacket claims that
Is it just this year, or have all the transitions from spring into summer been like this? In recent weeks, the gathering dark clouds on the horizon, the whiffs of
On 11 January, Bangladesh's interim government announced a state of emergency, and a censorship regime was imposed on the country's media. The following day, the editor
What kind of a government does Bangladesh have? Who is in charge and why? When did this begin, and of whom should we be afraid this time around?
The phase
During the election campaign of November 2005 that saw him scrape through to a narrow victory, Mahinda Rajapakse promised an "honourable peace" with the LTTE. This was in
