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THE GHOST OF GABO
20 April 2014 6:12 PM GMTA copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude – old, tattered if you’re old, tattered; spanking new, smelling of the cauldron of civilisation, if you’re...
Master of magic realism, Marquez, breathes last in Mexico
19 April 2014 12:31 AM GMTGabriel Garcia ‘Gabo’ Marquez, Nobel laureate and often hailed as the ‘most important writer in Spanish since Miguel Cervantes’, is no more. He died...
Master of magic realism, Marquez, breathes last in Mexico
19 April 2014 12:31 AM GMTHis appeal crossed over from enormous critical acclaim to staggering mass appeal. Putting Latin American literature firmly on the global literary map,...
Caste away
30 March 2014 10:56 PM GMTWhat has been often apologetically dismissed as Ambedkar’s utopia – his ‘impracticable, unfeasible dream’ of caste-less society – his ‘anti-Hindu’...
Saying No to Sanctions
30 March 2014 10:47 PM GMTEven as the West’s deepest fears about Vladimir Putin recreating the country of his youth, rebuilding Soviet Russia deal by deal, are at best...
What does nationalism hide?
23 March 2014 10:03 PM GMTRight at the outset of Playing the Nation Game, Benjamin Zachariah – historian, musician, playwright and occasional poet – tells us why we do not need...
Life of sex, scotch and scholarship ends at 99
21 March 2014 12:43 AM GMTOne of India’s best known scribe, whose keen and astute gossip was scathing cultural commentary on one hand and stellar pieces of genuine literary...
It’s back, the cold war
9 March 2014 11:25 PM GMTThe manner in which every global crisis is covered in the media, both Western and local, gives away the subterranean politics beneath the moves,...
Pulp friction
16 Feb 2014 9:16 PM GMTThe imminent ‘pulping’ of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History sounds an ominous bell. It is really two things at once: one, the...
Notes on a penal colony
2 Feb 2014 10:03 PM GMTAs Barack Obama signed an executive order on the first full day of his tenure as the 44th president of United States of America, in January 2009, the...
Cold weather, hot planet
19 Jan 2014 9:14 PM GMTThere’s something extremely intriguing about a sudden weather snap in the whole of North America, including its warm southern tip and the plummeting...
Nostalgia, an alpha bait
12 Jan 2014 10:13 PM GMTSikkim is back on the literary map. After a scintillating debut with The Gurkha’s Daughter, a short story collection that brought us closer to life...