Live from Jaipur: On Home, Writing and America
Home is not necessarily a place where you come from, rather it’s a place where you become. – British-born essayist Pico Iyer, the author of The Global Soul. A male writing certain …
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China will slow down, 50-50 chance for India story
Author and analyst Ruchir Sharma could easily be mistaken for a model, with his clean good looks and impeccable manners. But if you were to talk to him and have …
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India is our guru: Dalai Lama
He laughs from that deep down centre of inner peace, his face all radiance and the beauty of a realized soul. In the glorious wintry sunshine at the front lawns …
Read MoreIndia show gets bigger at Davos
DAVOS: The Davos show of the world’s top corporate titans and thought leaders is getting bigger and bigger. And so is the Indian delegation, which has not allowed the relative …
Read MoreWriting Purifies My Blood
M.G. Vassanji’s new novel The Assassin’s Song is a homecoming of sorts for the Canada-based author as he etches a finely poised dialectic between faith and tradition on the one …
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Explore Israel, the ‘fun country’
Israel is a fun country, says Israeli Ambassador Alon Ushpiz, with his eye firmly on adventurous Indian tourists who are looking to quench their appetite for wanderlust. “Contrary to perceptions, …
Read MoreMore flights from China to Taiwan
TAIPEI/BEIJING: Imparting renewed momentum to warming cross-straits relations, China has cleared the way for more flights between it and Taiwan that is set to increase travel and people-to-people contacts. China …
Read MoreHuwaei tries transparency
BEIJING: Chinese telecom colossus Huawei, which has substantial investment in India, has disclosed its financial performance – part of a strategy to boost transparency and allay security apprehensions of the …
Read MoreBlending art and high living
The old stereotype of an artist starving in the proverbial garret is passe. Art is no longer the affliction of those assailed by dreams and visions and forced by fate …
Read MorePoetry: Two poems by Kaiser Haq
As Usual As usual My old friend The Sage of the Roadside Tea-stall Casually solves a problem or two Between sips of semi-viscous tea For which, as usual, I am …
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