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Unknown becomes known, World becomes home, Distance becomes close, The other becomes brother’ - Rabindranath Tagore.Author Dhritabrata Bhattacharya...

History has been rewritten. It’s now hsstroy. Thus opens Altaf Tyrewala’s titular short story, which he qualifies as a ‘fictional dispatch from a...

Having read Sir Edward Penderel Moon’s, The British Conquest and Dominion of India, I was unsure of what to expect when I was handed Dominique...

The truth, as they say, is always a compound of two half truths and you never quite reach it because there is always something more to say. However,...

Like all great graphic novels (it would be very stupid to call it comic books any longer) after Odayan I - Aarambham came Odayan II- Yuddham. Page 92...

Actors have a power that many might envy - the power of essaying varied, even atypical characters and then returning to their normal lives. The...

Even before you have reached Chapter One, The Lives of Others hits you right in the gut. Nitai Das, farmer, failed by fate, feudalism and bad monsoon,...

Sankarshan Thakur has been a seasoned journalist with a varied yet consistent understanding of his home state, Bihar. With more than two decades in...

A master story teller seldom goes wrong. While Stephen King does not exactly hit bulls eye with Mr Mercedes, it is, without a sliver of doubt, one of...

Nepal has been on a roller coaster, ever since it started coming to terms with democracy. At the same time, it would be fabulously wrong to confuse...

What would Gandhi have thought of today’s bottoms? The old man probably had no idea what women of his time looked like beneath the bundles of clothing...

When Rossiter W. Raymond said, ‘Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our...