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…
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 is ‘Yes’…
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…
ENOCH POWELL ‘Belfast May Seem an Enviable Place’Ā
The Right Honorable Enoch Powell, PC, MBE, has been a major catalyst in racialist ferment for a long time now. Powell, who celebrated his sixty-fourth…
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…
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…
“I came under her spell,” says Teresa’s biographer
Reuters NewsĀ 5 September 1997Ā EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ Ā NEW DELHI, Sept 6 (Reuters) – An Indian bureaucrat who wrote two biographies of Mother…
RACIAL STRIFE IN BRITAIN ā The Color Bomb
Suddenly that unsporting term, Race, reared its colored head above the British horizon towards mid-1976, 19-year-old Dinesh Chaudhuri, and a Palestinian friend, were stabbed 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!”…
Lean on Me
The US economy needs India more than ever, says Chaitanya Kalbag. Barack Obama had barely walked out of Parliamentās Central Hall when the debate began…
Identify Yourself
The Fates Of the four million people whose names did not appear in the ‘complete draft’ of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam…