Globalisation 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 …
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Retracing 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 …
Read More‘Writing Purifies My Blood’
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 …
Read MoreAnuradha Marwah
Novelist Anuradha Marwah is no stranger to desire and its daemons. If Idol Love, her second novel, was about the suicidal sadness of unrequited love in an India that was …
Read MoreOde to a Liberal India
The Argumentative Indian Text: Amartya Sen Publisher: Gardners Books The Argumentative Indian is no not an exotic creature or an invention of Amartya Sen; turn left, right or centre – …
Read MoreInterview with Vikas Swarup
Life imitates art sometimes. Vikas Swarup is a diplomat and not a gambler, but his debut novel Q and A, published last year by Random House, has scored big in …
Read MorePost 9/11 World Very Unhappy to Live In
Eminent historian Mushirul Hasan speaks to Manish Chand about the sharpening divide between the Muslim world and the West, the prospects of democratization in the Middle East, the continuing spurt …
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India-Russia Ties Move Into Higher Trajectory
Where are the much-touted wrinkles in India-Russia ties? On one of the coldest days in New Delhi, there was much warmth and genuine mutual goodwill when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan …
Read MoreDeepening Of Ties With India Russia’s Top Priority
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in New Delhi for barely 17 hours, but his long-awaited visit has ironed out some of the recent rough edges and pitched bilateral ties into …
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