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Face to face with Mrs. Gandhi, August, 1978 – Malathy Sitaram
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South African newsletter: The war does not lie outside SA’s borders
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EDITORIALLY SPEAKING – a constant evolution
This is the last quarterly issue for this year. Thisyear has been different in many ways, as we are in the process of changing 0
The Song of the Shirt by Jeremy Seabrook (Navayana Books) – Charles Sarvan
In a poor house, a woman is seated at a table. “Her face is thin and worn, and she has coarse, red hands, all pricked by the needle 0
Reginald Massey awarded first prize for poem
Forward Poetry, Britain’s largest publisher of poetry, recently held a competition on the theme of Love is in the Air. Massey’s poem 1+
Reminiscing Childhood Memories of Old Mysore…
By Girija Madhavan I was born in 1938 in a house now called “Sahyadri,” the first of the four large Railway Bungalows that still stand facing KRS Road in Vani Vilas Mohalla, diagonally opposite Cheluvamba Park. In those days, it was known as the Loco Superintendent’s Bungalow. A Scotswoman, Dr. Gillespie of the Mission [or…
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The South Asian diaspora inhabits several countries and is, in fact, the largest diaspora on the planet. Poverty and persecution 0
A Good Holy Day – Anjana Basu
For kilometers the road is clogged with lorries. The thick black smoke of the exhaust fumes in guaranteed to leave 0
Global Unemployment – Migel Jayasinghe
Over the last couple of centuries, owners of capital, the bourgeoisie on one side, and workers, who offer their labour 0
The Prabhakaran phenomenon: towards an explanation
A Sri Lankan Tamil friend wrote to me wondering why thousands of Tamils, both within and outside the Island, devoutly followed the Tiger leader. Even more, why do so many – more in the diaspora, he thinks, than within Sri Lanka – still ‘believe’ in him? Why did they ignore evidence which pointed to major…