Poetry is a bit of dying. A poet dies many times writing a line that enriches life, bathes it with new-found meaning, gives it love and memory to...

When Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, made it to the cover of Time magazine’s 1 February 2012 edition, Indians in...

When Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991, she was the first South African writer to bag the prestigious recognition. At that...

China is on the cusp of something new. Major initiatives including a relaxation of the one-child policy, the elimination of the repressive...

However, the very same former civil servant has changed the game, as it were, of the Capital’s poll-driven politics. He has not just catapulted his...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela – freedom fighter, statesman, South Africa’s symbol of the long struggle against racial oppression and one of the greatest...

As  the spectre of Tarun Tejpal, the rape accused in the high-profile Tehelka sex abuse scandal, haunts the media worldwide, as a fleeting sight of an...

Can Sachin be doubted? Can Indians ever come to see the first sportsperson to be granted a Bharat Ratna in a light that’s not soft but harsh and...

Can Sachin be doubted? Can Indians ever come to see the first sportsperson to be granted a Bharat Ratna in a light that’s not soft but harsh and...

Goa police, who are now in possession of the CCTV footage from the Grand Hyatt hotel where the crime took place, have summoned Tejpal for questioning,...

In an email to Shoma Chaudhury, the managing editor at Tehelka, Tejpal admitted to ‘an unfortunate incident’ and blamed ‘a bad lapse of judgment, an...

There’s an atmospheric quality in Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings. Yes, that we all know. She has mersmerised with Interpreter of Maladies, the freshness of...