As writers organise for the ban on <i>The Satanic Verses</i> to be lifted, the battle to undo the damage of the past quarter century has begun. It is time for India to wake up.
Ghosh’s and Rushdie’s novels don’t mention “globalization,” but the process is understood well
As <i>l'affaire</i> Nano shows, change in India takes time, but deliberated upon, the result of a struggle, debate and compromise, the effects are longer lasting. That's perhaps the only way to govern a multi-everything entity like India.
While not the sole cause for rising oil prices, unrest in Nigeria, which has reduced production by at least a quarter, has aggravated the global markets.
Activists should target the governments backing the junta rather than the companies active in Burma. Why would China care about monks in Burma? The answer may lie in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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