Poetry as Socio-proctology

  Carl Sagan's widow has written a heart felt letter expressing her sorrow at the suicide of Rohith Vemula.   Not being familiar with c...

   Prof. Anwar Shaikh's magnum opus- 'Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises'- is due out from O.U.P in February. This is...

In 1963, as I later learnt from my Akka , a drunken penguin with delusions of grandeur escaped from the Bonn Zoo by pretending to be the new...

I thank God I've always been ugly, stupid, hateful or just plain barmy The exact opposite in every way of Subramaniyam Swamy Whose...

Once again in the mirror, abashed, dismayed See the trick Time, sudden, has played! Now, as then, sore loved because I'm the ugly...

Inder Malhotra has an article in the Express today about how and why India banned Salman Rushdie's controversial novel 'Satanic Ver...

Economics was once known as the 'dismal science'- its study appeared to hold little utility other than in salutarily lowering expect...