Manil Suri: India should be sensible. Pakistan is very dysfunctional

Novelist Manil Suri tells Rediff.com's Savera R Someshwar why India needs to avoid a full-blown hostile reaction to Pakistan. I look at the sign for Crawford Market behind me, still smouldering......

Restore Aatish Taseer's OCI card: Nobel winners to Modi

Over 260 prominent personalities including authors Nobel prize winners Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk and John Coetzee on Thursday expressed concern over the alleged "targeting" of journalist Aatish......

Jhumpa makes NYT's top ten list

The Namesake, a novel Jhumpa Lahiri initially thought of abandoning because it aroused uneasy feelings about her own immigrant experience, has shot into the national bestseller list.One of the best......

How yoga came to the UN

Image: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (centre) does the Vrikshasana (tree pose) with his wife on International Yoga Day. Photograph: Paresh Gandhi/Rediff.com It was almost 10 years ago that the......

Lost in translation

In a few weeks when Manil Suri, a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, will begin promoting his new book The Age of Shiva, some of his fans may want to revisit his first book The......