March 16th, 2017014Southbank Centre’s international multi-arts festival Alchemy returns for its eighth year from Friday 19 – Monday 29 May celebrating the dynamic cultural connections and exchange of ideas between South Asia and the UK....reports Asian Lite NewsAlchemy highlights this year include Ravi Shankar's Sukanya, Abida Parveen...
January 28th, 2017015Legitimising animal sports will increase acts of cruelty....Political Circus by Amulya GanguliThe description of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) as anti-India and anti-Hindu by saffron netizens is not surprising in a country which is patently regressing into the earlier centuries where animal rights are...
September 17th, 201609Amulya Ganguli in his weekly column says failure of good governance causes troubles in Kashmir and Karnataka....A special for Asian Lite NewsBe it Kashmir or Karnataka, poor governance has been responsible for making a bad situation worse. Such administrative lapses are true of minor incidents of lawlessness as well like the...
April 30th, 2016043Spectre of corruption continues to haunt Congress, especially its first family....writes Amulya Ganguli in his column Political Circus
It was the Bofors howitzer scandal which brought down the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1989. Since then, none from the dynasty has been the prime minister although the Congress has been in...
April 24th, 2016031Mamata likely to score a pyrrhic victory....writes Amulya Ganguli The high level of violence in West Bengal during the election campaign - far more than in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puduchery which are also going to the polls - can be interpreted as a sign of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nervousness about her party's...
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