Spotlight

Free calls to India is back on UK Orange Mobiles

This is great news for all Indians living in UK. For many years Indians in UK have had to spend money on calling cards to call their friends and family back home. Well now, once again, you can now make free international calls to  landlines and mobiles direct from your orange mobile. Just vist this [...]



Free calls to Pakistan

Free-international-calls-on-mobiles.com has been a great resource for information on free calls to pakistan using VOIP technology. The website has been around since the days of 07744 numbers and 07755 numbers. However since the end of those access numbers there have been 07822 numbers that did a similar job. Many of their customers have recommended their [...]



A Day to Remember - Enchanted Dreams & Lost Hopes: Amarjit’s Whisky Goes Awry - Kirpal Singh

“You know, the best thing about Ava Gardner, my gawd, you should see her inner thigh – simply creamy, just inviting, waiting for your caress-”
“How would you know? You talk as if you had her-“
“But I did yaar, I did.”
“Yiah - I am sure – in your dreams.”
“Yes.”
It is now more than seven years since [...]



CURRY DEBATE HOTS UP

Lord Dholakia questions Government in relation to skill shortage in curry industry:
Following the speech given last month by the Chief Executive of Immigration Advisory Service, Keith Best which highlighted the difficulties facing the curry industry (85% of curry restaurants are Bangladeshi) Lord Dholakia, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, asked [...]



International Migration, Development and Politics: A Note on the Brahmaputra Valley of North East India

One of the myths of ‘development’ that has gained great currency in the last two decades is that of ‘development’ as primarily an expansion in the total production and consumption capacity of a given economy. Thus, the relentless neo-liberal emphasis on ‘growth’. In the Brahmaputra valley, in an utter match of irony, the expansion in [...]



In celebration of Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand’s words entered my life when I picked up a collection of his short stories in a bookshop in Mumbai. Anand’s tales displayed a gallery of human nature that resonated with the complexities of India that were steadily seeping into my consciousness. A novelist, playwright, philosopher, poet, essayist, critic, Anand was at heart [...]



Ayurveda the knowledge of life

The science of Ayurveda which originated in the subcontinent of India is a holistic healing system with a profound philosophical background and comprehensive understanding of life. It is one of the most ancient medical systems prevalent around the Diaspora. ‘Ayurveda’ is literally composed of two words: “Ayu” and “veda”, meaning Knowledge of Life.
The primary aim [...]



Dreams and Beyond Madhu Tandan

A Conversation between the author and Malashri Lal
Malashri Lal who is a Professor of English at the University of Delhi is an avid reader of Madhu Tandan’s work and is attracted to the interpretive possibilities of dreams which are almost like narratives of the unconscious.  She engages Madhu in a deep conversation about the book [...]



The world of Indian Writing in English

Christopher Rollason and Ludmila Volná in conversation with Dr Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal
Dr Christopher Rollason is a British national living in France. He obtained his Ph.D. from York University (England), with a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe. For eight years up to 1987 he was a member of the Department of Anglo-American Studies at the Faculty [...]



Shashi Tharoor’s talk at Asia House – A sense of déjà vu

The Festival of Asian literature was hosted by Asia House in the middle of May, just when the weather was getting warmer and going out was a tempting thought. The focus was on Asian and non-Asian authors whose works were about Asia, written in English and published in the UK. This special festival was inaugurated [...]



Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape