The V S Naipaul I came to know

Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday. IMAGE: Sir V S Naipaul gives the Nobel lecture at the Old Stock......

No plea made by V S Naipaul for PIO card: Mission

Nobel Laureate V S Naipaul has not approached the Indian High Commission in London for a Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card, a spokeswoman of the mission said. In a brief statement, the spokeswoman......

Meet the Mumbai lady in a Pakistani madrasa

IMAGE: Hemal Trivedi during the making of the documentary. Photograph courtesy: Hemal Trivedi/Facebook 'People in Pakistan opened their homes and hearts to me because I was an Indian. I didn't......

Abhijit's Nobel and the challenges ahead

'The fruition of Nobel's hope lies in the response of a caring government that can rise above politics and propaganda, not in the frenetic raptures of a public that worships fame for fame's sake,'......