'The gesture you were asking me to make was one that would have had the import of denying the legitimacy of all Israeli civil institutions and thus of Israel itself'
The recipients of the prize on the <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265154" target="_blank" style="color:#af0e25;">controversy</a> surrounding their acceptance of it: 'The more we were told to turn our backs, the more we wanted to se
Amitav Ghosh on his refusing to refuse the Dan David Prize: 'I do not believe in embargoes and boycotts where they concern matters of culture and learning.' These, he argues, 'must, in principle, be regarded as autonomous of the state'.
Plainly put, Ravi Dayal (1937 - 2006) was one of the great editors of his time: the sort of expertise he brought to the printed word simply doesn't exist any more, not just in India but anywhere.
What can one possibly say to someone to whom one owes so great a debt?
The celebrated writer's seminal 1995 essay from the <i>New Yorker</i>, about October 31, 1984
Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn: Almost to the very end, even as his life was being consumed by his disease, he was the centre of a perpetual carnival, an endless mela of talk, laughter, food and of course, poetry.
On the fourth anniversary of the 1998 Pokhran tests: unabdridged notes and transcriptions from a series of interviews by <b>Amitav Ghosh</b> that went on to become the seminal book <i>Countdown</i>.
Lawyer and human rights activist, Asma Jahangir, Lahore, August 29, 1998
K. Subrahmanyam, strategic affairs expert, argues that a nuclear weapon, like a million pound note, is of apparently no use -- you can't stop small wars -- but it gets you credit and that gives you power to intimidate.
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