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Indo-English Novels before and after Rushdie

By: Ramlal Agarwal In its early stages, Indian writing in English met disapproval and disbelief. It was argued that no alien language could express the Indian ethos. As such, Madhusudan Datta and Bankimchandra Chatterjee, the earliest practitioners of Indian writing…

Berlin: when life was a cabaret

By James Aitchison Germany between the wars.  The Weimar Republic replaced the old monarchy.  In the golden 1920s, Berlin became a glittering world city, a melting pot of culture and counterculture, of science, philosophy, art, design, architecture, music, film and,…

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“Karoshi”: Are you working yourself to death?

By James Aitchison Once, the culture of overworking yourself to death was unique to Japan.  “Karoshi”, which literally means death by overwork, claims worker lives from heart failure, stroke, sleep deprivation and exhaustion, mental health issues and suicide — the…