India 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 …
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Indians 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 …
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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