There are many kinds of thieves: smugglers, customs and conservation officials, museum staff, and your venerable neighbourhood priest.
When the American art collector Norton Simon paid one million dollars to
The year of the earth rooster
On the fourth month of the new year we bought one hundred goldfish.
One by one mother dropped the slippery thrashing bodies into the
Earth Door Sky Door
paintings of Mustang by
Robert Poweril
Serindia Publications
A Citizen's Guide to the Globalisation of Finance
by Kavaljit Singh
Zed Books, London, 1999
pp xt+187, INR 120
The devolution package means all things to all people in Sri Lanka, while the cynical pursuit of peace continues.
Some weeks ago in Sri Lanka there occurred an event with
Years from now, when rny back is bent double with age, I shall tell my grandchildren that I once went to a concert by Lata Mangeshkar. What is more, I
The regulation of female sexuality in film has always been central to defining India's national identity.
In 1954, 13,000 women of Delhi presented a petition to Jawaharlal
It is a tricky, intricately structured dance that the Indian woman does on the screen—one fluid step forward and two lurching steps backward—and one that has remained the
The Pakistani film industry struggles for originality as pirated Indian movies steal the show.
What we today call Bollywood cinema is the common heritage of all those who contributed at
