Hindustani Awaaz: Literature, Culture and Society

The barahmasa are songs of separation -- both mystic and secular – expressing love and longing for the beloved. Literally meaning ‘twelve...

Kuldip Nayar is the grand old man of Indian journalism. His is the classical post-1947 Indian Success Story. He arrived in India, having t...

In a career spanning over six decades, India’s veteran journalist has covered a host of events; he has met, interviewed and written about m...

 There is the Taiwan of popular imagination: an economic giant despite its tiny size, an Asian Tiger revelling in its formidable clout...

Echoes of a Living Past Legend has it that sometime in the 10 th century, shiploads of Zoroastrians, fleeing persecution in their nat...

‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills…’ --Psalm 121 Sunlight filtering through tall pine trees creates a brilliant patchwo...

Black Ice , by Mahmudul Haque, Translated by Mahmud Rahman, Harper Perennial, Rs 199, pp. 123+ PS section.   ‘Everything becomes a s...