Awarding the 2006 Man Booker Prize to The Inheritance of Loss amounts to trivialising marginal communities, in this case the Nepalis of the Darjeeling hills.
Will Dharamsala’s insistence on following the current form of the Dalai Lama’s Middle Way approach continue to hinder a return to Lhasa? Will China ever relent?
"A BUTTON for your belly", announced the style section of New York magazine, and displayed the Navel Bindi Bliss (NBB) in action. Apparently coming hot on the heels
Five years of backward progress on securing the country now has NATO forces taking over security in Afghanistan. With few of the lessons of the past having sunk in, it appears unlikely that the country will breathe easier in the coming year.
After 13 years, Bombay courts in September finally began to return verdicts on the 1993 bomb blasts in that city that had left 257 dead and 713 injured. The findings
The quest for paradise often ends abruptly when tourists end up with cowdung on their clothes, writes David Nicholson-Lord, author of The. Greening of the Cities (Routledge), in The
There was a time when the rebellion of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) used to be compared to the predecessor insurgency of the Sendero Luminso (Shining Path) in Peru,
Killers have vanished in the crowd
And in search of her disappeared son
The old women slices partially rotten guavas
Placing unspoilt portions in the bowl
– Ashok Vajpai in Jeene
The crowd breaks repeatedly into good-natured applause and cheers, led by a moustached man with a cordless mike on the road below us. He has a sonorous way of
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
– John Soule, Terre Haute Express (1851)
A few months after the Afghan war, I was sitting in the Dhaka office
Trivialisation of news in India’s national English-language press hides larger trends that are overtaking the media world – taking news to the villages.
