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Jul 6, 20193 min read
Belfast, Brexit and the border
Belfast, the gritty capital of Northern Ireland where I found myself last week, is watching the prime ministerial race in London with an...
Jun 19, 20191 min read
What Is Not Said: Celebrating the Short Story | Podcast
The Jaipur Bytes podcast, hosted by Lakshya Datta, delivers thought-provoking ideas and meaningful debates from the iconic Jaipur...
Jun 19, 20191 min read
Guru Nanak: Traveller, Poet, and Philosopher | Podcast
The Jaipur Bytes podcast, hosted by Lakshya Datta, delivers thought-provoking ideas and meaningful debates from the iconic Jaipur...
Jun 17, 20191 min read
Amritsar and the Patient Assassin | Podcast
The Jaipur Bytes podcast, hosted by Lakshya Datta, delivers thought-provoking ideas and meaningful debates from the iconic Jaipur...
Jun 15, 20193 min read
The Camel Merchant of Philadelphia
An upscale bed and breakfast place in fashionable Saint Tropez, France, was once the estate of Jean Francois Allard and his wife, the...
Jun 7, 20194 min read
Forgetting history and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919
It is still April when I visit Jallianwala Bagh, a full 100 years after the 1919 massacre. The newspapers are full of recollections....
May 27, 20191 min read
Sing The Wrath Of Punjab
A great narrative poem of a Jallianwala Bagh massacre survivor, and lost for long, is finally translated. It retains the cadences of this...
May 25, 20194 min read
Abandoned at Sea | Voices of Komagata Maru
In September 1914, the German cruiser Emden, with remarkable stealth, appeared at the mouth of the Hooghly and destroyed five English...
May 17, 20194 min read
Inexcusable disgrace
Some events – the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Soweto shootings, the suppression of the Mau Mau – die slowly in the memory of nations,...
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