Of historical erasure, identity and trilingualism

India, Aug. 16 -- This particular book is focused on one day in the life of VO Chidambaram Pillai (VOC). At the height of the Swadeshi movement, for about two years from 1906, VOC ran a shipping compa... Read More

Interview: AR Venkatachalapathy, author, Swadeshi Steam

India, Aug. 16 -- Tell us about your new Tamil book, Tirunelveeli Ezucciyum Vaa.Vuu.Vi.yum 1908.This particular book is focused on one day in the life of VOC. At the height of the Swadeshi movement, f... Read More

Modi outlines vision centered around self-reliance, defence, pledges simpler GST

India, Aug. 15 -- Atmanirbharta (self reliance) is the foundation of Viksit Bharat (developed India) and over-dependence on foreign powers can cloud freedom itself, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said o... Read More

Forty years after Karamchedu, caste cauldron still simmers

India, July 17 -- Like many villages across India, Karamchedu had two drinking water tanks - a sprawling one used by the dominant Kamma communities and a decrepit one used by the Dalit Madiga groups. ... Read More

Forty years after Karamchedu, caste cauldron still simmers

India, July 16 -- Like many villages across India, Karamchedu had two drinking water tanks - a sprawling one used by the dominant Kamma communities and a decrepit one used by the Dalit Madiga groups. ... Read More

Quest of a lifetime, an evening of elation: 'Like a thousand fireflies lighting the sky'

New Delhi, May 22 -- Banu Mushtaq wrote her first short story when she was in middle school in Karnataka's Hassan town in the 1950s. That journey came full circle on Wednesday as the 77-year-old write... Read More

Quest of a lifetime, an evening of elation: 'Like a thousand fireflies lighting the sky'

New Delhi, May 22 -- Banu Mushtaq wrote her first short story when she was in middle school in Karnataka's Hassan town in the 1950s. That journey came full circle on Wednesday as the 77-year-old write... Read More