Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, seems to be Booker’s favorite, having won the recent Best of Booker Award. But a little deeper insight provides a different perspective. The impact of colonial era, especially in the commonwealth...

Zimbabweans hunted out coins squirreled away years ago in jars and cupboards and headed for the shops, where lines built up as overburdened tellers used to counting mounds of hyper-inflated dollar notes instead were juggling silver. The central bank,...

German doctors have carried out a complete double arm transplant. The patient was a 54-year-old farmer who lost his limbs in an accident six years ago. The donor is believed to be a teenager who had died shortly before the surgery. Neither man’s...

Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian-Serb warlord awaiting trial for genocide, has said high-ranking officials in the 1990s U.S. administration of the former President, Bill Clinton, want him dead and that it would be impossible for him to receive a fair...

At first sight, the idea of a single state in Israel-Palestine is barely intelligible; the region is permeated by bitterness and hate, everyday life there involves pervasive fear and violence, and there is calculated interference by foreign lobbies and...

What is more relevant than the historical record of relations between the two communities is the secular foundations of mordern Indian cicil society.The historical record suggests that neither side had monoply of the truth

As an afterthought to what happened yesterday in Parliament on the so called cash for votes scam, one needs to reflect on what this country’s politics has come up to, though the alleged horse-trading...

Americas are sharply divided on racial lines heading into the first presidential election in which an Afro- American would be the major party nominee...

Nepal will hold it’s first ever Presidential poll on July 19 amid political wrangling over who should get the coveted post of the head of state...

The Church of England, the “mother church” of the Anglican communion that is estimated to have 77 million followers worldwide, is on the threshold of a more inclusive and equitable era. Its General Synod vote in favour of ordaining women as...