Because the trend of human migration has received a fillip in recent times, the problems of diaspora have begun to loom large the world over. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Lahore: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said "a good number of ex-servicemen" are ready to join his party on his planned homecoming next month from self-exile abroad, amid reports that some 100 retired senior Army officers have shown willingness to do so. Musharraf, who has been living in self-exile since early 2009, said he will announce a date for his return when he addresses a public meeting in Karachi...
01:16 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Bunny Suraiya's 'Calcutta Exile' evokes a bygone era of one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities in the world. It also raises questions about individual and collective identities, the foremost among which is: where is home? Set in Calcutta a decade after partition, the novel explores what happens to people when momentous change happens. Here's an excerpt from the book: Chapter 1: Ayah Ayah's name was Sohag Khatun, but...
06:25 PM, Nov 30, 2011
This is a story about four families caught in a vortex of history that changed millions of lives. Set in Calcutta a decade after Partition, the novel explores what happens to people when momentous change happens. Robert Ryan, an Anglo-Indian, is as much a son of Calcutta, as is his Muslim servant Ayah and the Bengali Ronen Mookerjee, but in each of their lives, circumstances have changed. Ryan feels that...
01:41 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: Forced to live away from India, M.F. Husain at one time wanted to destroy all his paintings, says his son Owais Husain who is hungering to conquer the wasteland of possibilities left behind by his illustrious father. "I feel suddenly in life there is a wasteland in front of me, but the wasteland is rich, inspiring a hunger in me to devour the wasteland. I am ready, actually...
11:49 AM, Jul 05, 2011
CNN-IBN correspondent Sahar Zaman recalls her meeting with legendary painter MF Husain who died in London on Thursday. ...
12:10 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Dharamsala: After the implementation of the new Tibetan constitution, newly elected members of the 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile were sworn in on Monday. Interim Speaker Pema Jungney administered the oath to 42 MPs at a ceremony. The total strength of the House is 44. Election Commission of Central Tibetan Administration will hold polls for election of the two remaining MPs from U-Tsang Province (Central Tibet). Prior to the swearing-in ceremony of...
06:50 PM, May 30, 2011
Washington: The newly elected Prime Minister of Tibet's government-in-exile predicted that the 76-year-old Dalai Lama will return during his lifetime to the homeland he fled five decades ago. In Dharmsala, India, the Tibetan spiritual leader's exile headquarters, Harvard legal scholar Lobsang Sangay was declared on Wednesday as the winner of a vote cast by tens of thousands of Tibetans around the world, after the Buddhist leader said he wanted to...
08:26 AM, Apr 28, 2011
Dharamsala: The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has accepted the Dalai Lama's desire to be relieved of his political duties and agreed to amend its Charter for the purpose but has proposed that he should continue as the 'symbolic head' of the Tibetan government. Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile Samthong Rimpoche told the Tibetan Parliament here on the last day of its Budget session on Friday that the House has...
06:10 PM, Mar 25, 2011
Dharamsala: Thousands of Tibetans across the world on Sunday voted to elect the Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, an exercise that may usher in a transition in the community's leadership following the Dalai Lama's flat refusal to reconsider his decision to retire as its political head. "As many as 83,399 exiled Tibetan settled in India, Nepal, Bhutan, the United States, European countries, Australia, Japan, Russia and other countries were...
05:19 PM, Mar 20, 2011
People of Tibet don't want Dalai Lama to step down as their political leader. ...
10:43 AM, Mar 14, 2011
New Delhi: Art lovers may get to savour MF Husain's paintings at the India Art Summit in New Delhi after all. Organisers had removed them from the event following threats, but now the works are likely to be displayed again as police have assured full protection. An official from the Delhi Art Gallery, which will be showcasing Husain's works at the summit, said they are in "the process" of bringing...
06:22 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: Once the backdrop of romantic Bollywood movies in the 1960s and 1970s, Kashmir's idyllic image has darkened since a separatist rebellion broke out two decades ago, forcing many into exile from a beloved homeland. Siddhartha Gigoo's debut novel, 'The Garden of Solitude,' is a poignant story about a boy named Sridar who belongs to a Hindu sect called Kashmiri Pandits -- like Gigoo himself -- and flees with...
12:31 PM, Jan 20, 2011
M F Husain is revered by many as India's Picasso. ...
07:35 PM, Feb 26, 2010
CNN-IBN's Indira kannan spoke to M F Hussain in New York. ...
06:45 PM, Sep 19, 2009
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