AN OLD WOMAN in the Louga district of Senegal pointed to a barren, sun-baked and treeless plain and told reporters: Out there was a forest. When my father was a young man it was so dense and dark...
ASTROLOGERS CHOSE 15 August 1947 as a propitious day for India’s independent existence to begin. But by the 16th, when the Boundary Commission on future frontiers made its report, the Punjab was...
SHE IS 78 YEARS OLD and has the charisma of one of the world’s greatest leaders. She is an Indian woman from Kerala. She has always lived close to the poor, the marginated, the ‘untouchables’: the...
