50 Years of Freedom
Everyone knows how to celebrate; only a time and date are required to set in motion this inborn human behavior. […]
Bribery in India
Excerpted from The Week, May 25, 1997, “Grease To Go Around” by VIJAYA PUSHKARNA, with contributions from RAJIV MALIK, Delhi
Kerala Siva Temples
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN Two thousand and more timber temples dot Kerala’s verdant landscape. Devotee’s devotion have created them in
Reborn as An Artist
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK You can call it his brush with death. Three years ago, noted Delhi artist Satish
Ready for 60 More
By M. P. MOHANTY, NEW DELHI The President and Prime Minister of India headed a long list of dignitaries gathered
Love Letter From God
BY LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK The year was 1925 and Pandurang Shastri Athavale was all of five years old. Wrapping
Sotheby’s Illicit India Artifacts
Television audiences in the UK and the USA watched in amazement as Roeland Kollewijn of the Sotheby’s auction house casually
A Colorfully Crafted Fair
By SHIKHA MALAVIYA, MINNESOTA As our taxi rushes through the dusty streets of Delhi, my heart goes pitter patter. We
India – Once Plentiful
Most of us college-educated Indians were taught that inefficient technologies and low productivities pervaded through long ages in practically all
Court OK’s Takeover
A January decision by India’s Supreme Court validated the 1988 government takeover of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in