Fresh from his Western junket, journalist Sujoy Dhar gets an assignment to flood-ravaged Birbhum. He went there counting his allowance, and came back guilty.
The hangover remained. The memories
When Luit Deuri surrendered with 300 rebels on 13 August, little did anyone realise his disclosures would unsettle basic perceptions. The former "G2" of the United
The Chief Executive of Pakistan has decided to stop courting the West and focus on internal politics, but this brings him squarely up against the religious right. Meanwhile, the liberals
I live now in a haunted place-without remembered
ghosts—no bitter weeds, no webs of light, no single hair
curled sweetly on the mirror's glass, but one
If you think to be alone is to walk about in the rooms of
your house and hear the neighbours dying on their
terraces and see the evening busily gathering
You will hear it waking to the roar of a ceiling fan,
in the rustling of dry palm leaves, in pebbles pouring
from a lorry onto the dusty street. The
Wandering among twisted streets on long dry afternoons,
in those shrieking bazaars that are a conspiracy whispered
through the broken teeth of pavements, I am made
homeless by distance. I
