Taliban govt unlikely to survive: William Dalrymple

Describing the new Afghanistan government as “spectacularly uninclusive” even within the Taliban frame, author-historian William Dalrymple says the "all-male old guard......

Hartosh-Dalrymple spat: Reading between the lines

"The colonial hangover afflicts not us, but them." So says Will Heaven of the UK Telegraph, reflecting on the spat between Hartosh Singh Bal and William Dalrymple.For a quick recap, Bal wrote a......

Vaihayasi P Daniel speaks to William Dalrymple

India has probably just one Punjabi Scotsman. Writer and historian William Dalrymple lives in eccentric, oddball-style outside Delhi in a rambling bungalow in Mehrauli. He shares his home with......

Writer Willam Dalrymple: 'I don't believe Muslims are a problem and Islam a threat'

'When Sikhs were killed in the Afghan-Sikh war in 1837, the Afridis used to bury their heads like flowerpots in the ground,' writer and popular historian William Dalrymple tells Rediff.com's Syed......

Dalrymple hoping for Sydney call up

England off-spinner Jamie Dalrymple is hoping for a last-minute call-up for the final Ashes Test against Australia, starting in Sydney on January 2. The 25-year-old was a late inclusion in the......

England name provisional World Cup squad

England have named a provisional 30-man squad for the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies. England World Cup squad: James Anderson, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Glen Chapple, Rikki Clarke,......

Strauss, Collingwood lead England rally

ScorecardShoaib Akhtar dismissed Marcus Trescothick with the first ball of the match before England battled back to 271 for nine against Pakistan in the third one-day international at Southampton's......