The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ These immortal words from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by...

Like Alo Presidente, the television programme in which the late Hugo Chavez discussed his government’s policies and heard from the public, often...

Who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia [?].’ In the universal...

Was the  blue-eyed boy of global Hinduism a saint or a sinner? Was he, as believed by most practicing Hindus, a great social reformer, who had...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a powerful State in possession of a massive military must be in search of conflict zones. Otherwise, the...

Exactly when those of us who attended the just-concluded Jaipur Literature Festival were heaving a sigh of relief, and were, in fact, celebrating the...

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that...

Controversies in the literary world always gladden me and the past year had doled out quite a handful of them as a way to remind us that our writers,...

When an ailing, cancer-strickenHugo Chavez, the 58-year-old Venezuelan presidential incumbent, was returned to power by the South American country’s...

This is a very bad case of déjà vu. It’s all the more horrible because an entire country seems to have accepted gun massacres as mundane and routine...

Multiple political affiliations don’t bog the Bachchans down. The First Family of Bollywood is pleased to serve opposing political camps and still...

The month of November 2012 will go down in history as one which holds up a mirror to how India, the so-called secular democratic republic, responds as...