Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life
The cultural invasion of the US remains an issue in the Central and Eastern European countries that emerged on the politico-economic map following the disintegration of the Iron Curtain.
Down Memory Lane in Lahore
Relations between India and Pakistan tend to oscillate between moments of bonhomie and patches of tension. In over three decades of following India-Pakistan ties, one has seen periods of heightened tension and a few instances of goodwill and expectation. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s bus yatra to Lahore caught the imagination of people on both sides, but the gesture floundered with the Kargil intrusions.
Bumping into Alchemists
BV Karanth had emerged as a formidable theatre director with a great sense of music by the early 1970s.
Regional media
One day when he was standing near a pan shop, Ashok Parmar heard the shop owner talking of the nexus between local politicians and the underworld.
Reporter's Diary
Jaffna, October 5, 1987. I was lucky to be there, the day all hell broke loose in the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
Baghdad Revisited
A fortnight before Christmas, I was asked to visit Baghdad by an American TV channel which was running short of regular staff during the holiday season.
The dead of the night
Ajit Sahi, former Executive Editor of Tehelka, recalls the agony of the survivors of the Dantewada massacre of April 2010.
Total Recall
JOHN DAYAL is a journalist, author, occasional documentary film-maker and full time civil society and human rights activist. He is also a member of the National Integration Council chaired by the Prime Minister. He recalls his experiences during the 21 month-long Emergency (June 1975 – March 1977)
Falling in Line
Working as a journalist in China’s newspapers can be an eye-opening and engaging experience, revealing unsuspected potential and unforeseen possibilities.
1984: Too Gory to recall
The 27th anniversary of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination revives stark memories of some 3,000 Sikhs killed brutally in the orderly pogrom that followed her killing.
Historic tashkent talks
ALTAF GAUHAR was Field-Marshal Ayub Khan’s information secretary, closest confidant, and biographer, indeed alter ego. It is he who had recorded that on September 6, 1965 when Indian troops entered the Lahore sector, the Pakistani “most surprised†was Ayub Khan, Pakistan’s first military ruler.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
