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By Maliha Diwan Neel Patel’s stories are about Indians living in America, but instead of ethnic divides or cultural disparities, he writes about people falling in and out of love and messing…

Siddhartha Gigoo has earlier written The Garden of Solitude and A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories. The latter was long listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015. Siddhartha…

By Harris Khalique Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, our major poet, fiction writer and literary editor from the last century, once recalled meeting a few writers and publishers from the then Soviet Union. They…

By Nissim Mannathukkaren Unless… philosophers become kings in the cities… there can be no cessation of evils… for cities nor, I think, for the human race. — Plato, The Republic After…

By A.G. Noorani MYANMAR’S civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s charge that the two Reuters reporters convicted under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act (OSA) and sentenced to seven years in prison were…

By Saira Mmujtaba Perhaps Indian society is best described as the Great Indian Tamasha, for there is never a dull moment to keep the tamasha from going on. And perhaps the best…

By Sanjay K. Jha The Congress on Friday expressed doubts that Union minister M.J. Akbar would face action over the sexual harassment charges against him, contending that Narendra Modi had never acted…

By Prabhat Patnaik A parallel penal system which is outside the purview of judicial oversight, which is not accountable to anyone, and which can penalize anybody whom the political dispensation dislikes with…

By Amir Hussain The notion of the civil society is frequently used in our modern political and development discourse. The concept of the civil society entails anything ranging from a political party,…

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