A professor in the US takes up the cause of a terror detainee of Pakistani origin who, she says, is guilty only of being a Muslim and a critic of US policies.
An Old Delhi neighbourhood full of highly skilled craftspeople struggles to survive, to keep some fragment of its poetry in a city whose priorities are far more prosaic.
Shantigopal Pal rewrote jatra history by taking Hitler, Lenin and Marx to Bengal’s villages. As he takes his final bow, it’s time for a standing ovation.
Colombian singer Shakira, who was given a medal for her work to promote social justice and children’s empowerment worldwide, says she has followed Mahatma Gandhi’s maxim.
It’s a sight that would surely have puzzled Sundarbans’ Royal Bengal Tigers: scores of men clad in strange black gear bent doubly over searching for the big cats’ poop.
Shantigopal Pal rewrote jatra history by taking Hitler, Lenin and Marx to Bengal’s villages. As he takes his final bow, it’s time for a standing ovation.
The old Bally bridge spanning the Hooghly has been virtually abandoned by the state Public Works Department and the National Highways Authority of India ever since the new one beside it came up.
Bet Mamata Banerjee doesn’t know this: there’s a hamlet on a narrow-gauge link between Katwa and Ahmedpur in Bengal’s Birbhum district where trains stop for only one week in a year.
India’s Maoists pulled off another PR coup when elusive rebel leader Kishenji publicly gave Union Home Minister P Chidambaram a number to call on to discuss the terms of negotiations.
How will today’s children learn to live in their own world when all they read about are heroes who have magical powers to fight evil forces?
5Shashi Tweeter Tharoor ought to share some of the grief his ministry’s embassies have caused Indian citizens.
4It’s time to stop comparing Sachin with other cricketers. He is among the greatest sportsmen of all time. Cricket is just the game he plays.
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