Germany
A Tough Compromiser
Krishnan Unni P
The author of The Tin Drum changed the art of the novel. And his politics was consistently problematic
1989: Between History and Memory
The threat today is no longer from the comic strip communism of Pyongyang. It is the ex-communist as an aggrieved nationalist, or the pinstriped communist as a Confucian capitalist, who challenges the world
Rejecting Home
Troubled by the spectres haunting Europe, Claudia Richter is on self-imposed exile in India
A Yellow-Black Fairytale
The line-up for this year’s UEFA Champions League has three usual suspects and one gigantic wave of energy
The Curious Case of Elfriede Maria Schmidt
A 77-year-old German lady who’d made a Kochi hotel her home for the past eight years died last month. Her body has been lying unclaimed since. We went in search of her past and found four threads unspooling a lonely and wounded life
The Emperor’s Holy Book
A copy of the Quran, parts of which were written by Mughal ruler Aurangzeb, will soon be auctioned in Germany.
It Was a Classic
Germany’s 4-1 defeat of England at the World Cup, despite the refereeing controversy, will be a match long remembered.
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