In February this year, I wrote a piece about a place I once called home. Weeks later, I received an email which thereafter turned into a stream of exchanges right through the lockdown. It felt as if t...

Ms Violet Stoneham rides home from school in a hand-drawn rickshaw, after teaching Twelfth Night to a class of disinterested students. Home is in a narrow lane of decrepit houses that have seen better...

It was on this day four years ago that my father, Neil O’Brien, left for the Big Library in the Sky. As a man always surrounded by books – as an author, a publisher, an educationist, an un...

Say ‘Anglo Indian’ and those who are not Anglo Indian themselves will conjure up a certain image — brown to blonde to golden hair, light to pale grey to true blue eyes, freckles and furrows tha...

Anglo-Indian leaders, principals and professionals from 30-odd cities will gather in Calcutta on Monday to discuss the way forward for the community following the revocation of the provision for nomin...

The reservation for the Anglo-Indian community in legislatures as “granted by the Constituent Assembly” is being “rather maliciously, even fraudulently” abolished, the St Xavier’s University...

The Anglo-Indian community has decided to set up a team of representatives of educational institutions and professionals with legal acumen to “safeguard the autonomy and minority rights” of their ...

Ravi Shankar Prasad’s claim of only 296 Anglo-Indians must be contrasted with Chakravarti Rajagopalachari’s perceptive comment that most educated Indians are “Anglo-Indians”. Like Han Suyin, h...

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The time has come “once again” for Christian schools to make “Indian society more humane and uphold constitutional values”, a bishop said at a service preceding a four-day conclave of the head...