From culture to commerce, blossoming of India-South Korea ties
“Do you know the story of how the Indian Princess of Ayodhya married a Korean King named Suro?” Kyungsoo Kim, the Consulate General of South Korea in Chennai, asked me …
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Target India: Never say no to New York
Popular American TV show Sex and the City, which ran for several seasons, is, by far, the best advertisement ever that New York City ever got, says Fred Dixon, Executive …
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Sunetra Gupta: Juggling science and writing, playing music with words
For years Dr Sunetra Gupta has been working on mathematical models to make sense of the evolutionary ecology of infectious disease systems at the University of Oxford’s Zoology department and …
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Akhil Bakshi: A born tramp heads on One World voyage
Akhil Bakshi suffers from a curious affliction: the perpetual itch to explore new places and connect distant lands and cultures. He is a perennial voyager in the archetypal sense of …
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At home in India, leaving America and living with Hemingway
An internationally acclaimed photographer, whose black and white images occupy pride of place in elite galleries in the UK, Michael Katakis was on a whirlwind tour in India early this …
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Mission Possible: Shed your fears, fundraising can be fun
‘Fundraising is an extreme sport.’ Well, the Indian NGO industry certainly knows this to be true. In a free-wheeling conversation with India Writes (www.indiawrites.org) Marc A. Pitman, the man behind …
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India’s soft power is based on dialogue, not monologue: ICCR chief
In a world riven by shifting alliances, competing nationalist agendas and competitive power projections, soft power has acquired a special resonance and salience. What hard power can’t achieve, soft power …
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Dr Ambedkar is conscience of modern India, let’s move beyond token social justice: Narendra Jadhav
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambdekar, popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar, is a towering figure in the history of modern India. Known better as the emancipator of Dalits and backward castes, Dr …
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Unravelling love, sex as self-discovery, writing and living
In 2001 Indian-American maths professor Manil Suri made headlines when his debut novel The Death of Vishnu created a big buzz with wild figures being tossed around as advance the …
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‘Quality, not commercial success, of artists is what matters’
Rajeev Lochan, a gifted artist who has a genius for transfiguring the mundane in his paintings, has also carved a space for himself as an efficient art administrator. As director …
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