Arpo Irro: The youth festival modernising Onam
The sound of the drums, coupled with the ecstatic chant of “Arpo…irro, irro, irro” echoed through the Penrith Regional Sports Centre during Sydney’s first...
Should you reward kids for success?
It’s become a ritual in our family – after a long day at his rowing regatta, my 17-year-old son and I get fast food...
Australia includes India in the Work and Holiday Visa program
Australia has fulfilled its promise by amending visa rules to allow 1,000 Indians to work while on holiday in Australia by inclduing India in...
First impressions: how opening lines shape literature
“Here is one way I propose that you read this book.” That's how one of India’s most iconic works of fiction began. R.K. Narayan’s...
Shashi Tharoor: Lost in a wonderland of words
A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language, with its penchant for purloining from other languages, its hermetic spellings, its...