Hungarian Scholar Finds Bonanza in Kerala Church Archives
ChrestomatherChristianity is of course, in its origins, an Asian and African religion: it first took root and flourished in the regions that link the two continents. As it…
Correspondence with a mathematician/zoologist
Dear Mr Ghosh: Extra-ordinary book - "The Hungry Tide"!It is everything the reviews and the blurbs make it out to be - and much more - it is certainly one…
Two poems for Agha Shahid Ali: his grave in Northampton
A few years ago, I don't know exactly when, my essay on the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali (which is posted here) was included in a textbook that…
Letter from Austria
From: Shankar Nath To: chrestomather@yahoo.in Sent: Wednesday, 11 January 2012 2:57 AM Subject: khatirdari Dear Amitavji Being aware that this is one of a million bothersome Fan letters,…
‘Tristful’ post makes news in Trieste!
Amazing to relate, but my post of (March 13), 'Trsitful Trieste' has occasioned an article in a leading newspaper of the city, Il Piccolo. …
More on Zoroastrian rites
Further to my post on Zoroastrian Hong Kong, Shernaz Italia writes: Dear Amitav, There seems to be some degree of confusion regarding the disposal of the dead…
‘Glass Palace’ translator wins Myanmar National Literature Award!
On October 20, 2008, I received a message that all but knocked me over on my beam ends. It was from the distinguished American novelist, Robert Coover, author of The…
Marvelous Histories
'Magical realism' is as much a part of history as of fiction. It could not be otherwise, for history is replete with instances of the 'marvelous', at least in the…
Zoroastrian Hong Kong
Parsis have played an important role in the Hong Kong's history since the time of its founding (the Treaty of Nanking, which ceded Hong Kong to the British, was…
Hong Kong People
Hong Kong is home to many interesting people, like the novelist Xu Xi whose…