A formidable take on the depredations carried out by the Company William Dalrymple has written about almost every phase, and every facet, of the British experience in India, from the early swashbuckling, colorful years to grim disasters in the grip of the foreigner, such as the uprising of 1857 and the colonial wars in Afghanistan. […]
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The Grand Slam tournament is one of the emblems of the British people Of all the tennis Grand Slams, the one I had always wanted to experience was Wimbledon, yet it has always proved impossible to acquire good tickets. As the years went by, it dawned on me that I may never get the chance […]
It shouldn’t be difficult for Modi to mobilise global support Just got back from Delhi a few days ago, and I’m still slightly reeling from the blow of its huge blast. The towering government offices which house India’s civil and military establishment, South Block and its ilk, have shed the dusty sleepiness I remember from […]
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MY KABUL STORY Original Author: Nasreen Sattar On a work trip to Kabul in 2008 I was meeting the only friend I had who lived in the city. As I waited at the hotel entrance to be picked up, an enormous dark grey SUV looking like a battle tank hove slowly into view. The door […]
Concluding Part Acts of Faith: Javed Akhtar, Shazia Omar, Tabish Khair and Mudar Patherya with Mir Afsar Ali I have always been fascinated by the person and work of the great poet Javed Akhtar and so I am delighted to have a chance to hear his views from up close (and little do I know […]
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The Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet was held from 25-29 January 2017 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. There were two spectacular venues, one under a shamiana erected on the east side and the other within the quadrangle on the western side. As always at literary festivals there were too many events scheduled for anyone to […]
Sunil Gavaskar’s grit and tenacity made him a batsman of the highest order Researching my recent article on Hanif Muhammad (“Hanif Muhammad’s Epic Innings,” Dhaka Tribune, August 17), I became increasingly interested in the crucial differences between big scores made in the first and second innings of a Test match. In brief, the batsman has […]
The boy had the best possible view of the cricket from high on a tree. It was January 20 in 1958, the third day of the first ever Test match between Pakistan and the West Indies, held in Barbados. Hanif Mohammad had just come in to bat, with Pakistan in a hopeless position, when the […]
The flavour of Brexit is present in everyday London life. This is the concluding part. Today, the latest nutrition research recommends moderation, which is common sense. Saturated fats should play a significant but not major role in diet. All the foods which were considered suspect for so many years, from eggs to butter, from steaks […]
Caught up in the Brexit wave. This is the first part of a two-part long form Leaving New York – with a lingering look at the first lovely sunny day of the US spring. I landed in England to be immediately caught up in the Brexit wave. On the two hour ride into Cambridge, my […]