
June 03, 2005 02:50 IST
In a ceremony brimming with symbolism, BJP president L.K. Advani has laid the foundation stone for the restoration of what are believed to b...
Fri, Jun 03, 2005
June 02, 2005 01:27 IST
Under a sweltering afternoon sun, the protocol finally melted. On the remains of narrow twisting streets at a two-millennia-old site at Taxi...
Thu, Jun 02, 2005
June 01, 2005 02:22 IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party president L.K. Advani’s first day here saw two processes unfoldin step. In discussions with President Pervez...
Wed, Jun 01, 2005
May 31, 2005 03:09 IST
L K Advani arrived in Pakistan late tonight to news in a leading daily that he had curtailed his visit by two days and promptly had to field...
Tue, May 31, 2005
May 08, 2005 00:00 IST
Was there a specific moment in time when Bangalore changed, when it transformed from a mild-weathered haven for pensioners to India’s I...
Sun, May 08, 2005
May 01, 2005 00:00 IST
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. Sixty years ago summer came to America’s New Mexico desert with extraordinary ferocity....
Sun, May 01, 2005
April 10, 2005 00:00 IST
Near the close of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new novel, two persons share notes on losing their fathers. The older one keeps preluding his...
Sun, Apr 10, 2005
February 27, 2005 00:00 IST
As suspected cases of human-to-human transmission of bird flu pile up in East Asia, basic values that sustain our early 21st century, global...
Sun, Feb 27, 2005
February 06, 2005 00:00 IST
Emigration, in the mid-twentieth century, played a key role in delineating the West Indian identity. The diverse experiences of migrants fro...
Sun, Feb 06, 2005
December 05, 2004 00:00 IST
Once upon a time Kabul was a name redolent with mystery and hospitality, with intimations of life at a cultural crossroad. That changed as t...
Sun, Dec 05, 2004
November 21, 2004 00:00 IST
The story of evolution, you’d think, would amount to pretty much the same narrative no matter how it’s told, whether the chronicle...
Sun, Nov 21, 2004
November 07, 2004 00:00 IST
WHY is it that some of the most ignorant people get to decide the country’s future?’’ wailed a spectacled Naderite into the b...
Sun, Nov 07, 2004
October 31, 2004 01:34 IST
It's still three days before polling opens across the United States, but in this little patch of fading Americana in the Himalayas the vote ...
Sun, Oct 31, 2004
October 24, 2004 00:00 IST
Anita Desai’s novels can be very deceptive. They are inhabited by men and women who could have been living next door, her fiction is dr...
Sun, Oct 24, 2004
October 10, 2004 00:00 IST
What is it about Darcy that we would not recognise him by any other name? Put Ma Bennet in a sleepy provincial town in north India. Have her...
Sun, Oct 10, 2004
September 12, 2004 00:00 IST
For his senior thesis Justin Haythe wrote a novel. It presumably passed muster with his Jamesian professor, but was subsequently considered ...
Sun, Sep 12, 2004
September 05, 2004 00:00 IST
Writers imagining changing, fragmenting communities often seat themselves at a restaurant table. It is a vantage point that obtains prismati...
Sun, Sep 05, 2004
August 15, 2004 00:00 IST
In a small village in northern Rajasthan, you can feel Teliashutosha’s sense of relief. He is into Day 3 of his first job—as a sub...
Sun, Aug 15, 2004
July 25, 2004 00:00 IST
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan has been lavished with more names than can be kept track of. Badshah Khan. Bacha Khan. Baba. Khan Sahib. Frontier Ga...
Sun, Jul 25, 2004
July 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Every work of fiction, it could be argued, explores possibilities. But place the foray tantalisingly close to reality, and the result can be...
Sun, Jul 11, 2004
June 27, 2004 12:03 IST
BILL Clinton has said he intended to write two books. One about his Arkansas years, and presumably his student days on America’s east c...
Sun, Jun 27, 2004
May 16, 2004 00:00 IST
Traveler’s first rule — everything is interesting if you look at it with the right eyes.In this book of journeys, it is difficult ...
Sun, May 16, 2004
April 17, 2004 00:00 IST
As a victory ritual it is intriguing. Indian cricketers are joyfully accepting every photographer’s request. On the field, in the dress...
Sat, Apr 17, 2004
April 17, 2004 00:00 IST
At the Pindi Cricket Stadium, a security official hails an Indian journalist. I was part of the security team at Multan, he says, before rai...
Sat, Apr 17, 2004
April 16, 2004 00:00 IST
So what are Gujaratis like?’’ teases a tall, Byronic sophomore. ‘‘What about you? You know what they say about Biharis, ...
Fri, Apr 16, 2004





