“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Our Chandigarh had its share of poets and there had been lyrical poets of the fame of Shiv Kumar Batalvi writing in Punjabi and Prem Warbortoni penning ghazals in Urdu with aplomb, calling out to his ...

The police would make all kinds of “bandobast” in the years gone by, and rowdy elements were kept in check so that young lasses could enjoy a hassle free Valentine’s; these days, for some reason, the ...