Will I ever be able to go back to Crimea?

'Will the Crimean peninsula's flavour change again as even more Russians come stomping through?' 'Will the Russian bear be content with lunching on Crimea?' 'Or will he eventually bumble into......

Why we need to discover the world

Aakar Patel tell us why we must travel with open eyes and discover ourselves.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com There is a little jewel of a quote that appears on ads for channels like......

The colourful, manic world of Jaipur Lit Fest

Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports on the twists and turns of the high speed, crazy literature festival It is like reading a manic, exotic novel. A luridly colourful novel which switches......

Tales that lack ethos and pathos

Writers often produce excellent books but they lack the flavour of those written by people writing in the language of their own culture, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan For a long time now many......

Martin Scorsese goes back in time

Earlier this week, a conversation about a ten-year old meditative film on the life of Dalai Lama brought a large number of New Yorkers to the Rubin Museum of Art.And as the gifted writer Pico Iyer......