Prime Minister Modi all set for his US visit
Final preparations are afoot to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a diaspora rally on Sunday where more than 16,000 people will gather at...
A treat for cinema fans in India: Re-release of 2000s classics
There’s something magical about re-entering a darkened cinema hall, popcorn in hand, as the opening titles of a classic film play on the screen....
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...
No justice for Pratibha Sharma and family in Daylesford pub crash
When William Swale crashed his car into a beer garden in regional Victoria, he caused the deaths of five people of Indian origin including...
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...