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Salman Rushdie: provoking people is in my DNA 31 Dec 2008 | 05:39 pm
Twenty years after the Ayatollah Khomeini called for his execution, Salman Rushdie is still alive – and still making enemies. John Preston in the Telegraph: A car pulls up outside a Georgian house in...
End of the Kashmir Jihad 30 Dec 2008 | 06:28 pm
Aakar Patel in Hindustan Times: Having predicted that Kashmiris would boycott the election, Indian liberals are now urging the government to act to resolving the Kashmir issue with some sort of geogr...
Men who ‘shot’ the Mumbai terrorists 30 Dec 2008 | 06:21 pm
Thomas Fuller in International Herald Tribune: When the gunfire started at Mumbai’s main train station last month, Sebastian D’souza was well placed to respond. From his office directly across the st...
India, exporter of priests, may keep them home 30 Dec 2008 | 06:11 pm
As families have fewer children and the Indian economy offers more career options, the West may need to look elsewhere to fill its empty pulpits. Laurie Goodstein from Aluva, India, in International H...
Unparliamentary expressions 30 Dec 2008 | 05:46 pm
India’s Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament) secretariat has published a 900-page tome that governs speech in Parliament. It lists words and phrases not allowed not only in the Indian Parliament,...
The leftist and the leader 30 Dec 2008 | 03:16 am
From 3quarksdaily: An imagined conversation between Tariq Ali and Benazir Bhutto. By Maniza Naqvi Act I: The Leftist and the Leader: Scene/Stage: There is a screen at the back of the stage which p...
Stem cell banking in India 30 Dec 2008 | 03:00 am
An IANS report in the Hindu: What could be more precious than gifting your unborn child a way to fight blood, genetic and immune system diseases for the rest of his or her life? Sure enough, many Ind...
Ramayan 3392 AD — the movie 29 Dec 2008 | 11:37 pm
From Wired: With Hollywood hitting up comic books for blockbusters, a new comics publisher is looking to India for ideas. “The world is increasingly realizing that India is a source for creativity an...
In Bangladesh, Urdu-speakers finally get a vote 29 Dec 2008 | 07:45 pm
From the Times: Every morning at 11am, a group of schoolchildren gather in a slum in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to sing not one national anthem, but two. First, the students at the Non-Local ...
