Kashmir’s Iconic Bookstore Shuts Down
Another pride of the Kashmiri people has been silently erased, along with its 45 years of glory. Bestseller, the iconic bookstore situated in a quiet corner of Lal Chowk in […]
A Terrible Laughter: Milan Kundera
Well, there is hardly any creative personality left in the whole continent of Europe who can portray the essential image of the continent, especially after the demise of Jean-Luc Godard […]
Politics, Economy & Environment
The world is going through a phase of great confusion as it experiences intense geopolitical turmoil and unprecedented conflicts. At the same time, the economic crisis and trade wars have […]
The Importance Of Dialogue In The 21st Century
When animosity between two conflicting parties escalates beyond rhetoric to the threat of war, rational persons remind them of the importance of dialogue in order to restore normalcy. However, a […]
A ‘Changed’ China: Dalai Lama!
The 14th and incumbent Dalai Lama (born Tenzin Gyatso on July 6, 1935), the Tibetan spiritual leader who is currently living in exile as a refugee in India, has claimed […]
Manto & Madness
Saadat Hasan Manto and the Exploration of MadnessIn his short story Toba Tek Singh, set against the background of the 1947 Partition of the Indian Subcontinent, writer Saadat Hasan Manto […]
The ‘Self’ & The ‘Profile’
The arrival of satellite channels at our drawing rooms in the 1990s, and the increasing usage of smartphones and growing popularity of Social Media in the early 21st Century have […]
Blot On The Landscape
In 1993, American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist and author Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) had mentioned that the Earth was not an insignificant […]
Degeneration!
Bengalis are commonly known as Bhadraloks (Gentleman) in India. Now-a-days, it pains the Gentlemen to see the desperate lows that the Eastern Indian Province of West Bengal has touched. Almost […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 