Ganges
A White Elephant by the Ganges: A Russian bard’s fantasies about India
Ajay Kamalakaran
Vladimir Vysotsky, one of Russia’s most beloved 20th century poets, was fascinated with the India of his imagination, and wrote and sang a few timeless classics about the country in the 1970s
Among the Brahmins
It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India
There’s No Silence Louder than Rahul in Benares
The enigma that is Rahul Gandhi has proved too inscrutable for the people of Benares. No one has a word to say about him, not even a harsh word
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