Culture

News updates and opinion pieces on entertainment, arts, and literature

What Hindu Nationalists Really Believe

Hindu nationalism has become the dominant political ideology in India today. What does it actually mean?

Dec 5

BOOK REVIEW: The Wondrous Elixir of the Two Chinese Lovers

By Tim McGirk. Plum Rain Press, Taiwan, soft cover 348 pages, US$17.95

Nov 22

Life in Lint: The Cost of India’s Textile Recycling

Workers trade off their health and welfare for a precarious living

Oct 28

Iran and Art in a Cage

A century of cultural rupture and decline

Oct 26

A Week in Chengdu

Our traveling correspondent finds a native animal almost too cute to bear

Oct 25

BOOK REVIEW: Shattered Lands (Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia)

By Sam Dalrymple. William Collins, London, £25 hardback, India: Harper Collins India, New Delhi, hard cover, 528 pp, Rs799, US33.99

Oct 18

BOOK REVIEW: Harvesting the Waves (How Blue Parks Shape Policy, Politics and Peacebuilding in the South China Sea)

By James Borton. Universal Publishers, Irvine, CA, soft cover, 298 pp. US$39.99

Oct 12

BOOK REVIEW: Unbroken (The Power of Resilience)

By Chee Soon Juan. Self-published, Singapore. 224 pages, S$30

Oct 11

Malaysia’s International Footy Hopes Dashed in Fraud

It’s all a matter of where your grandma’s from

Oct 9 • John Berthelsen

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