Leaders of Pakistan's radical jihadi organisations have been touring Pakistan. "We will stop only at Srinagar," boasted one of the commanders. Another made a rather more
The Left Front may win another election, but the time has come to look beyond Basu.
The communist government of West Bengal may have managed to become the longest-serving
Will renaming the city get rid of a lingering colonial hangover?
Arose by any other name will smell as sweet. Calcutta by any other name will be as chaotic."
In Vidia's India: A Million Mutinies Now there is little landscape and hardly any weather. There is no smell, no heat or dust, no sweating men, no lisping
Himal calls from Kathmandu. They want a piece on English writing in Bangladesh. Deadline is not so long away. Is it possible? I suppose so. Dhaka e-mails are all
Pre-Partition Pakistan had a tradition of writing in English, but only in recent years have Pakistani English fiction, poetry, and some drama started to come into their own. The
The IDLE lover
'The loneliness inside me,
the duality of my person'
– Kishwar Naheed
Over a dark and quiet empire
alone I fly-and emvy you,
two-headed eagle who at least
have always yourself to talk to.
– Andrei Voznsensky
Whatever the concerns of
Abandoned Temple
A brambly thicket of blackberry canes
squats, a votary, before it.
Another autumn slowly ticks away.
Veils of mist smile on nervously
at this victim of unmoving grass.
