CALCUTTAĀ -THE CITY THAT REFUSES TO DIEĀ Ā
Nowhere else in India do people engulf you as they do in Calcutta. From the moment you step off your train or plane, and begin…
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R. K. NARAYAN-THE MAN FROM MALGUDIĀ
It took me some time to discover Rasipuram Krishna swami Narayan’s house. Yadavagiri, the suburb of Mysore City, where Narayan stays, is an incredibly quiet…
Frozen in the Headlights
Poor Manmohan Singh is caught between the Pros and the Cons. The Pros in the Opposition are telling the prime minister, who has never seemed…
TOURISMĀ – A NEW LOOK AT OLD PLACESĀ Ā
Been away from India for some years? Planning to go back this year, family in tow, for a long vacation?Ā If the answer’s ‘Yes’ both…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Best of intentions go awry sometimes. That aphorism has struck home at INDIA TODAY where the effort to do a job better and more…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS does not have to scream from the headlines to be news. In fact, it is probably one of the failings of the media that…
Who’s afraid of India’s Hindu nationalists?
3 March 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited Ā NEW DELHI, March 3 (Reuters) – India’s Bharatiya Janata Party appeared tantalisingly close on…
Hosokawa has finalĀ fleeting moment among blossoms
20 April 1994 Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1994 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, April 20 (Reuter) – “Blossoms in the air; unable to stay longer; and still…
ANALYSIS-Unlikely actors in India’s passion play
25 April 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited Ā NEW DELHI, April 25 (Reuters) – What do a former housewife who speaks Italian-accented…
STALLED PROJECT MAY HOLD CLUE TO COMMUNIST SUPPORT FOR GANDHI
27 November 1989 Ā Reuters NewsĀ Ā EnglishĀ (c) 1989 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Nov 27, Reuter – A giant petrochemical project could hold a clue…
Asia satellite TV successes prompt local response
28 December 1992Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1992 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Dec 28, Reuter – Satellite and cable television is approaching rice status as a…
Satellite TV no pie in the sky in Asian megamarket
28 December 1992Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1992 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Dec 28, Reuter – Satellite and cable television is approaching the status of rice…
The awesome explosion of Asia’s airwaves As viewers tune in to the cornucopia, someĀ governments worry about foreign encroachmentĀ
29 December 1992Ā The Globe and MailĀ C3Ā EnglishĀ All material copyright Thomson Canada Limited or its licensors. All rights reserved.Ā TokyoĀ SATELLITE and cable…
Satellite and cable TV catching on fast in AsiaĀ
4 January 1993Ā Straits TimesĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1993 Singapore Press Holdings LimitedĀ Some govts feel threatened by foreign encroachment on airwavesĀ TOKYO – Satellite and…
Commonwealth chief says African democracy growingĀ
20 March 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, March 20 (Reuter) – Democracy has taken root in most African countries but…
I have to follow capitalism: Buddha
IT IS like being thrown about in an ideological cocktail shaker. You get off a gleaming passenger jet and drive over a soaring expressway to…
‘Our Way Of Lifeā
Weāre a long way from solving Britainās race riddle QUITE A few of my trips to London have been shadowed by death. or the portent…
CALCUTTA IS FOEVER
Thirty years ago, a dishevelled man leaned across and shouted at me in the smoke-filled, raucous Olympia bar on Calcutta’s Park Street: “Calcutta is forever!”…
SUFFER THE CHILDREN
The other day, I watched this video of four-year-old Jackson Drew reciting Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?) and marvelled…