The writer is former Professor of Cultural and Literary Theory and UGC Professor Emeritus at Panjab University, Chandigarh
January 08,2026 07:19:12 AM
A donkey-drawn cart creaked forward under the weight of a fleeing family: Three children clinging to their parents, bags of belongings teetering at the back, and the donkey pulling on, battered and thin.
July 12,2007 02:00:36 AM
University life should be able to meld diverse intellectual activities and human experiences
January 19,2007 00:03:18 AM
No one could have missed coming across name-droppers but now there are also ‘place-droppers’.
February 09,2006 00:00:00 AM
My wife was working on her doctorate at Cambridge and I was busy writing a book on Evelyn Waugh. After a year of some rigorous research, it ...
January 13,2006 00:00:00 AM
It happened years ago. I arrived in Jalandhar a little after midnight from Mussourie to appalling heat, so oppressive that it had become dif...
September 09,2003 00:00:00 AM
As India welcomes Ariel Sharon, prime minister of Israel, the prospects for West Asia look ominous. The world does little to reprimand Isra...
August 25,2003 00:00:00 AM
In ‘Suicide bombers can be stopped’ (IE, August 19), Fareed Zakaria asks the question: What drives suicide bombers not merely to k...
January 10,1998 00:00:00 AM
If it were possible to know about the past once and for all, there would be no need to write history. It should be clear to historians in th...
