Once upon a time, Malayalam cinema played to the tunes of the incredible hero, the ever-green Prem Nazir, who never tired of wooing heroines, running around trees with damsels
Mid-shot of a row of men sitting and looking bored in the middle of nowhere in Bangladesh. Camera pans the faces.
It was raining hard as they trudged through
Pink-cheeked, top-hatted schoolboys walking across vast playing fields surrounded by medieval stone buildings: surely that's what Eton Hall is all about? Wrong. Eton Hall is a
A controversial power plant pits a bishop's word against a president's silence.
Sri Lanka's most senior Catholic bishop recently made a startling announcement at
Mega projects and Nawaz Sharif seem to be made for each other. Sharif has to his credit a 16-billion-rupee yellow cab scheme and a 40-billion-rupee Lahore-
When it snowed in Moscow, overcoats would come out in Karachi. No longer.
There used to be a time when the village Bulhereji near Mohenjodaro in Pakistan's Sindh
The war in Afghanistan started in the middle of the excavation of six Kushan graves in Tillya Tepe. Through the war, the world wondered about the Bactiran golden hoard'
The train sped into the night and the passengers struggled to stay awake against the hypnotic rhythm of the travelling sounds which gently seduced everyone into sweet sleep. I was
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