Taj Was A Symbol Of Imperial Power
Taj was a symbol of imperial power The Taj Mahal was more than a monument of conjugal love built by Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal; …
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Straddling Two Worlds, Two Cultures
Anita Rau Badami: ‘Straddling Two Worlds, Two Cultures’ Indo-Canadian writer Anita Rau Badami’s new novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call tells the intertwined stories of three women right from …
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Nothing But The Whole Truth About Gandhi Rajmohan Gandhi, author, academic and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has written a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi that sifts myths and legends from …
Read MoreI Would Go Insane If I Didn’t Write
Indian-American author Abha Dawesar is a driven writer. Writing is a mental necessity for her, a constant wrestle with words and meanings to keep her daemons from running away with …
Read MoreIndia Can Build Bridges. China Can’t
China may be rising, but it is India which is uniquely poised to play a bridge-building role in an Asian century, says Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore’s former envoy to the UN …
Read MoreIndians Are Erotic People, But Sexually Repressed
Psychoanalyst and novelist Sudhir Kakar has a genius for digging deep into the depths of the human psyche and diving back with rare gems of insights into the complex grammar …
Read MoreGlobalisation A Threat To Poor Countries
Wangari Muta Maathai, the iconic Kenyan environmentalist who became the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2004, speaks in simple, direct sentences that brim with …
Read MoreRetracing Roots, Creating Identity
Neera Kapur-Dromson, a fourth-generation Kenyan of Indian origin, has wrestled with kindred issues of identity, roots, cultural clashes and self-creation as long as she can remember. An Odissi dancer, who …
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M.G. Vassanji’s new novel The Assassin’s Song is a homecoming of sorts for the Canada-based author as he etches a finely poised dialectic between faith and tradition on the …
Read MorePortrait Of An Islamist Radical
KHARTOUM: A conversation with Sheikh Hassan al-Turabi, derided by the West as the “Black Pope of Terrorism,” is like descending into the dark heart of Islamist radicalism that flaunts its …
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