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| A truth that one can neither spit nor swallow |
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The ongoing fracas around Ashis Nandy’s statements about caste and corruption at the Jaipur Literature Festival on January 26, 2013, is disturbing for reasons that go deeper than the threat to the freedom of speech in India today.... | Read.. |
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| Deep rot |
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Sir — It is most unfortunate that the Bar Association, a body representing 5,500 lawyers of the Cal ... |
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| Courage to know |
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Sir — The news report, “Topper who split books” (Jan 25), was quite touching. Prema Jayakumar and h ... |
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There is something rotten in the state of West Bengal. The government of the state did not want Salman Rushdie to visit Calcu... | Read..
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“Are you still harking back,” Norman Tebbit had asked Britain’s Asian population in 1990, “to where you came from or where yo... | Read..
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| Frugal Lives |
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When the Supreme Leader speaks, the country listens. The new communist party head and soon-to-be president, Xi Jinping, has s... | Read.. |
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| Children of a dreadful midnight |
| With the stopping of Rushdie's visit to Calcutta, the city finally completes its downfall to a spirit-crippled provincial town, writes Ruchir Joshi ... |
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. — SALMAN RUSHDIE
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