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...
As the Quad meets again, is it all optics and no...
This weekend, the four leaders of the Quad will once again convene, this time in US President Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. The...
Attenborough Ganesha: How an entire street got together for Ganesh Fest
Srivalli Sarada of Attenborough Place in Nirimba Fields, Blacktown, holds in her hand a platter filled with an array of food items.
They are offerings...
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...
A.R Rahman returns to Aus in October
What was that one factor that fuelled musician A.R Rahman’s rise to the top of his game as an unparallelled genius?
Canorous innovation? Compositional brilliance?...