Au seul souci de voyager ...

Au seul souci de voyager
Outre une Inde splendide et trouble
- Ce salut soit le messager
Du temps, cap que ta poupe double
Comme sur quelque vergue bas
Plongeante avec la caravelle
Ecumait toujours en ébats
Un oiseau d'annonce nouvelle
Qui criait monotonement
Sans que la barre ne varie
Un inutile gisement
Nuit, désespoir et pierrerie
Par son chant reflété jusqu'au
Sourire du pâle Vasco.

- Stéphane MALLARME (1842-1898)

AK Hangal ignored by film world - Hindustan Times

AK Hangal ignored by film world - Hindustan Time

Rahim Chacha of Sholay- lies on a cot, struggling to be alive as his source of income has dried up and there is hardly any money for food or medicine. So far nobody from Bollywood has thought it fit to enquire after the health of Hangal.

On the menu, a new star sign for you - Hindustan Times

On the menu, a new star sign for you - Hindustan Times
Over the 2,500 years or so since the zodiac was established, your sign has moved about a month relative to the sun and stars

New Delhi 100 - Centenary of the Capital of India

A hundred years ago, the British monarch King George V chose a dusty field of Delhi to anoint himself the Emperor of India. Nobility from across India witnessed the colonial jamboree — and from a distance, the ‘natives’ — as the foundations of what is now known as New Delhi were laid...