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…
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Malaysia says foreign planes may help hunt pirates
21 June 2005 21:10 Reuters News English (c) 2005 Reuters Limited KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 (Reuters) – Malaysia proposed on Tuesday that foreign surveillance planes…
BHUTAN — Remote land strives to Preserve identity
REUTERSĀ 8 September 1985Ā The Seattle TimesĀ SundayĀ J11Ā English (Copyright 1985)Ā THIMPHU, Bhutan_Ā ‘‘ Do not give pens, sweets or medicine to villagers,” warns a…
India’s Best Banks
Just as we were putting this special issue of Business Today to bed. Thomas M. Hoenig. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City,…
Gender Gag
Sexual harassment can be crude and overt or very subtle, but you know you are being sexually harassed when you experience it. Those around you…
NOT SELLING VOLUMES
It was a browser’s dream come trueĀ kilometres of books that took hold of the bibliophile’s heart-strings and did not stop tugging for hours. For…
A BATTLE SUPREME
Titled Judiciary: AtĀtacks and Survival, the speech had been long in coming, the speaker delayed, first by an attack of diabetes in March and then…
THE DAISY’S PETALS
Itās a NAIL-BITER. I predicted in another column that the Lok pal Search Committee of eight eminent persons might cap a five-year slow waltz just…