Thursday 16 October '08
Adiga’s Booker win raises hopes for nuance in books about IndiaSunday 28 September '08
A 19-year-old killed in the Korean War meditates on lifeTuesday
16 September '08Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is likely to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today in a last attempt at a peace deal...Wednesday
13 August '08In a discussion with Ian Mc-Ewan in 1984, Milan Kundera asked him to ponder the national anthems of “small” and “big” nations.Wednesday
6 August '08Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was his own greatest story. For, he was far from the greatest Russian writer of the last century.Friday
18 July '08The first attempt to bring a sitting head of state before the ICCSaturday
12 July '08The knave or Jack is the Devil. The trickster is a figure of power, dreaded and admired.Thursday
3 July '08Did someone say the same about Spain as a nation of eternal lament?Monday
30 June '08This short essay by the 18th-century French political philosopher Montesquieu appears in English for the first time.Tuesday
24 June '08The veteran journalist who died of multiple organ failure in a south Calcutta nursing home last Thursday afternoon shunned...Saturday
21 June '08India has overworked and overlapped every possible permutation and combination of Difference...Sunday
8 June '08Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif talks about his debut book, a funny little novel about Zia’s death in a mysterious plane crashSaturday
24 May '08Shuja Nawaz has for long tracked the Pakistan army. His brother Asif Nawaz was the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan from August 1991 till his death in January 1993...Monday
12 May '08As the Democratic battle draws to a close, German commentators, like their counterparts elsewhere, are asking what would compel Hillary Clinton to concede defeat.Wednesday
7 May '08Ma tovu ohalecha ya’akov meeshkenotecha yisrael (How good thy tents are, O Jacob, thy dwelling places, O Israel)...Sunday
27 April '08In Aravind Adiga’s first novel, Balram Halwai’s letters to Wen Jiabao unfold the India in darknessMonday
14 April '08India’s suspicion of financial markets had prevented its financial system from becoming either stable or vigorous.Saturday
12 April '08April has not been a month of lull. It has made every effort to keep itself in history. The distance of time (and often one of space too) complicates the act of remembering...Thursday
10 April '08I came late to Bob Dylan. My parents were avowedly the “other” ’60s (read: the other sound of Western popular music...Friday
4 April '08May 14, 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of Israel. After six decades, Israeli politics today...Sunday
16 March '08In the end, the city overpowers Neel Mukherjee’s novelMonday
10 March '08The attack last week, when a Palestinian gunman shot dead eight people at the Mercaz Harav seminary before killing himself...Friday
7 March '08How often does one come across an author who deals primarily in the thriller...
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