Some sad news to report about The Hindu, a newspaper which fortunately has not lived up to its name, in the way that modern-day Hindutva defines it. On 5
Bangladesh
AL Government bans Air-Conditioners in Dhaka between 6 and 11 pm
In its latest move to control the stifling electricity shortage in Dhaka, the Awami League government has
Pakistan's opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has recently been giving new meaning to the epithet 'power-hungry'. At a Muslim League rally where Sharif was speechifying on
BANGLADESH
Paralysed Bangla
Where the Bangladeshi government fails in supplying power to its people, it does not quite make up for in its attempt to find a solution to the
The controversial 'arrest' of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Raju Baruah in early December caused a localised storm that
In reading the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema descriptions of Shyam Benegal's renowned trilogy – Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975) and Manthan (1976) – one might be led to imagine the '
The romantics
Who believed
The sun can sulk
The moon can hide
– Shillong-based poet Temsula Ao in "Stone-people from Lungterok"
When the funeral cortège of Girija
In the labyrinthine corridors of 'Af-Pak' politics, an arrest is not an arrest and a crackdown is not a crackdown. Currently, Afghanistan and Pakistan are engaged in
For helping to pony up a running cost of roughly INR 13 million per day, the average taxpayer of India would understandably hope that the halls of the country'
