…and how returning to it was, after all, just another journey
How an invisible Line of Control shapes the lives and destinies of people who live near it
Since Sri Lanka’s civil war began 26 years ago, Tamils have gone back and forth across the historically porous border with India in Tamil Nadu. About 100,000 refugees live in Tamil Nadu today. After President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared the war over in May 2009, are they prepared to make a final cross-border leap of faith?
Contrary to what Manmohan Singh says, it seems there was no ‘concurrence’ between the Finance Ministry and Telecom Department on 2G spectrum allocation
S&P had many valid reasons to downgrade US sovereign debt, the latest being an ugly political wrangle in Washington DC
Immigrants who want to make India home are forever kept at an arm’s length by those who ‘belong’. Notwithstanding the impressive list of ‘foreign’ citizen-leaders, innovators and heroes
In Kerala’s Malappuram district, a hundred odd people have one eye on the Indo-Pak border, even though it is thousands of kilometres away.
It is a thriving trade, the smuggling of bullocks across the Indo-Bangladesh border for slaughter. To contain it, however, India is better served tackling corruption than shooting at suspects
No matter how distinctive our regional cuisines, we are more like each other than we know