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| A serpent in paradise |
| A devoted teacher’s arrest is far from Verrier Elwin’s dream |
| Reading Elwin in university, I resolved that I must, when I could, travel to those parts of India that had left such a deep impress on his mind. In the early 1990s, I visited the villages in the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh where he had lived so... |
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| Mind the language |
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Sir — Thirteen-year-old Nabanita Das of Assam has become the new icon representing the importance o ... |
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| Deaf ears |
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Sir — It is unfortunate that while the West Bengal Pollution Control Board acknowledges the problem ... |
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| PENALTY KICK |
| The battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington famously remarked, was won on the playing fields of Eton. The battle to tame I...|
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| Art’s ménage à trois |
| Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, in association with Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, brought Picasso’s Suite Vollard to India last November. This finely mounted exhibition, wh... |
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| Ordinary tributes to the master |
| First to get off the starting block for the mammoth Tagore sesquicentenary celebrations shaping up from this year, Lokkrishti offers its homage by dramatizing his unusual late... |
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| Special offerings |
| The concert presented by the Kolkata Konsort at St John’s Church on February 6 was organized in aid of Udayan — the home for children whose parents have been afflicted with le... |
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If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person’s mind begins to roam irretrievably. One’s fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
— ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
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