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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...

‘I’ll be sworn, I was ne’er guilty of reading the like.’ - Ben Johnson, Every Man in His HumourThe Cuckoo’s Calling over and done with, Robert...

As a Rabari bride-to-be sews a gudri (quilt) to take to her groom’s house, she sings, ‘Who has stolen my gudri with the priceless tassels and bells?’...

The achievements of exile are permanently undermined by the loss of something left behind.' A welsh word has been quite popular on the Internet in the...

The standard discourse surrounding the Kashmir Valley is usually shrouded under the dark cloud of militancy. The early ‘90s was probably the darkest...

In a country that has a published volume of poetry by its current prime minister, poets like Sridala Swami are both recluses and soft moons lighting...