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...
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...
Captivating Cusco
To the casual (and innocently misguided) observer, Peru is synonymous with one site: the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. But Peru is so much...
Indian Link loves: Our September favourites
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We could probably count on one hand how many books relating to the Indian-Australian experience have been released in the past five years. That’s...
Nethra Raman on The Voice: ‘Music is about telling stories’
Nethra Raman remembers her Blind Audition for The Voice vividly; saying goodbye to her family to walk on stage was the longest silence of...