'The colloquial language forced a turn to the recent past and I thought about the hangings of men like Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon.''Whatever their deeds, proven or still in doubt, did their deaths......
'Not allowing people to speak or listen is the biggest act of anti-nationalism,' says Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, one of India's finest poets. Archana Masih/Rediff.com met the poet who is rock-star......
TheSahitya Akademi awards were announced on Thursday in Panaji, Goa.Poets Mangal Singh Hazorary (Bodo) and Jadumani Besra (Santhali)are among those who will be honoured by the Akademi this......