'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'
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The recipients of the prize on the controversy surrounding their acceptance of it: 'The more we were told to turn our backs, the more we wanted to se
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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'.
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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.
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What can one possibly say to someone to whom one owes so great a debt?
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The celebrated writer's seminal 1995 essay from the New Yorker, about October 31, 1984
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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.
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On the fourth anniversary of the 1998 Pokhran tests: unabdridged notes and transcriptions from a series of interviews by Amitav Ghosh that went on to become the seminal book Countdown.
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Lawyer and human rights activist, Asma Jahangir, Lahore, August 29, 1998
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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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