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India’s Marxist veteran looks back with pride

CALCUTTA, India, June 15 (Reuter) – The leader of the world’s oldest democratically elected communist government looked back on his 20 years in power and…

R. K. NARAYAN-THE MAN FROM MALGUDI

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…

CALCUTTA’S INDIANS TAKE ELECTIONS IN STRIDE

26 KILLED ON SECOND DAY OF INDIA’S GENERAL ELECTION

India aims to grant autonomy to state-owned media

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…

What the Government Needs to Do Now

Despite the crisis, a clear message must be sent to the investor community that India is open for business. There was an initial spurt of…

INDIA, THE CLASS ACT

With this kind of rebellious example, how will fair play and right eousness prevail? Won’t the lower castes get out of hand? In this decadent…

Deal Chahta Hai

A laughter club in Mumbai is forced to “zip it” because a humourless neighbour is disturbed, not long after a 63-year-old cartoon unleashes a cleansing…

Most Powerful Women

Our Prime Minister can seem like an accidental politician. Speaking publicly, he comes across as earnestly wooden, and when he addressed the nation on September…

NOT SELLING VOLUMES

It was a browser’s dream come true kilometres of books that took hold of the bibliophile’s heart-strings and did not stop tugging for hours. For…

AN HEIR SPLITTING LEGACY

The story is as complicated as the whorls on a fingerprint, a ready-made screen-play bursting with grandeur, feudalism, pretension, and the tattered remnants of pomp…