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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…

Who’s afraid of India’s Hindu nationalists?

Focus- India set for Hindu-led coalition government

India’s BJP wins power, but daunting task ahead

India’s Vajpayee tries to form coalition

Focus- Hindu leader Vajpayee takes power in India

Focus- India’s Congress hammers BJP in state polls

India’s Vajpayee should “go for broke”, rival says

Fuzzy

Caprice and cowardice were both on display last fortnight. Ten days after a bunch of state election results delivered a hard punchi in the Congress…

Energy Shock: India Story Risks Running Out Of Steam

This has been a summer of discontent, and the portents are not auspicious. One day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced his second underwhelming Cabinet…

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…

THE AFTERMATH

GANESHA’S temple had never seen so many supplicants, all with unanswerable prayers Colombo’s Tamils call it Pillaiyar Kovil, and its ornamented gateway on Galle Road…