Centrality of Central Asia: A film festival in Almaty
The film festival in Almaty (Septe-mber 17-21), Kazakhstan, is called the Eurasia International Film Festival, and with good reason.
Frosty but peaceful middle path in Sino-India relations
Chinese defence minister General Liang Guanglie visited India from September 2-7, 2012 at a rather short notice of a month.
A historian for all ages, but a Marxist at heart
Eric Hobsbawm, the famous British historian who died at his home in London on October 1 at the age of 95, mesmerised the audience when he delivered a lecture at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi a
Creating medicinal forests a giant step to good health
One of Asia’s largest monolithic rock structures overshadows the Savandurga forest spread over 1,000 hectares (has). The rock structure attracts a large number of trekkers but the forest enjoys its own significance as it is a repository of rare medicinal and aromatic plants.
Nightingale of India gets her songs on CD
Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the moonlight chill?...
White as a feather and white as a cloud,
We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.
— Sarojini Naidu
Centre must find a solution to Naga issue with tact
A rally organised by the Angami, name of a Naga tribe Youth Organisation (AYO) and supported by several other Naga organisations on April 2, 2012, saw thousands of Naga youth taking to the streets in
Manto: The bold, controversial storyteller par excellence
In the perspective of world literature, Saadat Hassan Manto is reckoned with Chekhov and Mopasan.
‘India is going through exciting phase of innovation, growth’
It’s not really easy to catch a Harvard professor and like any other student you have to ensure you talk to the professor between lectures. On a busy weekday afternoon, Professor Stefan H.
UK to unveil world’s largest sculpture
Britain will unveil the world’s largest human landform sculpture, a 1,300-feet-long and 100-feet-high reclining woman, next week.
Will India-Burma cooperation neutralise Northeast militants?
The 46th India-Burma border liaison meeting was held at Leimakhong near Imphal, where a mountain division of the Indian Army is headquartered, on August 22.