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Melody for Monday: Kaise Bani Sundar Popo'Kaise Bani' isn't just a celebration of fusion, embodying the cultural duality of the Indian diaspora in Trinidad, but also that of life, ...- India's remarkable progress: A look back at 77 years78th Independence Day: India, marking 77 years of independence, has seen extraordinary advancements in diverse sectors. The article acknowl...
- The great explorer of lives, and lifeHe used the same toolkit with history - in Liberty or Death (1997) on the transfer of power from British India to Independent India; in the...
- British royalty: Spare us the word colonisationGoing forward, historians and scholars must fiercely reject use of the word 'colonisation' and its latent linguistic racism. The word timid...
- British composer Monty Norman, known for James Bond theme, passes away at 94Norman was hired to compose the theme for the first James Bond film, 'Dr. No' in 1962.
- Potential and ProspectsThe migration, within the British Empire, from India to Trinidad, had given me the English language as my own, and a particular kind of edu...
- Power plays that arise from power ploysAvoiding electricity outages is tough, so, we convert it into political opportunity.
- View: In 2014, it was the Chowkidar and Chaiwala. What will it be in 2019?Since the Prime Minister will be the centrepiece of the election, the question is: what does Modi 2019 stand for?
- Blyton to Naipaul: A Million Noddys NowBoth writers have more in common than Aug 11, succinct sentences being just one
- Why VS Naipaul never wrote his autobiographyAccording to Naipaul, fiction never lies and reveals a writer totally. But an autobiography, he felt, "can distort; facts can be realigned".
- Amitav Ghosh to be honoured with Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement AwardPast recipients of the award include Kiran Nagarkar, M T Vasudevan Nair, Khushwant Singh, Sir V S Naipaul and Mahasweta Devi.
- Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 diariesAt the launch of his son Rohan’s dream project, Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI) at the Jaipur Literature Festival last week, he loo...
- English useful but no substitute for mother tongue: Ram NaikI think that the mother tongue, be it Hindi or any other vernacular language, should be the medium of instruction at least up to the second...
- The Panache meme: Thumb and dumberIn other news, Facebook is contemplating a ‘dislike’ button. Your selfies and other revolutionary opinions might suffer. You have been warn...
- Girish Karnad not the only one to aver that some Nobel laureates are undeservingHe would not be alone in pointing out that Nobel selectors often fall short of expectations when it comes to choosing laureates.
- Girish Karnad slams Naipaul for his views on MuslimsV S Naipaul has come in for stinging criticism from noted Girish Karnad for his views on Muslims in India, with the latter saying the Nobel...
- Why India's tourist season begins in October every yearThis is the time of the year when it's not too cold in India with winter still weeks away. It's not too hot either.
- Offensive but VS Naipaul’s views also reflect the malady of a ‘mimic man’There is clearly method in the cultivated aura of genteelly-enunciated controversy. He can't quite ladle out the same nasty curry about Ind...
- Happy Diwali! from darkness to lightDiwali is celebrated not just in India but in S'pore, K'Lumpur & elsewhere.
- Criminalised politics and GDP growthIndia is experiencing record economic growth and record criminalisation of politics at the same time.
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