An ambassador of Indian music
Entertainment |
October 6, 2006
The pressures of marketplace multiculturalism weigh heavily on sitar
virtuoso Nishat Khan. Read more
Articles by Davan Maharaj
387 articles since 1997
Little country, big World Cup dreams
Opinion |
June 9, 2006
EVEN BEFORE THE World Cup kicks off today in Germany, Trinidad and
Tobago has already scored its first goal: becoming the smallest
nation ever to reach sports’ premier event. Read more
A life measured in ounces
World |
July 22, 2004
A bottle of Dark and Lovely hair gel in hand, Kassim Issa pushes his
withered body down a dirt path through Nairobi’s biggest slum,
peddling a few ounces at Mama Washington’s and other tumbledown salons. Read more
The $10 impossible dream: A year of school
World |
July 20, 2004
The note sent home with the 922 students of Silwanetshe Primary
School was clear: Pay up or drop out. Read more
Squalor everywhere, but still this is a neighborhood
World |
July 16, 2004
Plastic bags, knotted and sagging, soar across the slum late at night. Read more
For sale – cheap: ‘Dead white men’s clothing’
World |
July 14, 2004
Tossed off a flatbed truck, a 100-pound bale of used panties and
bras, worn socks, DKNY suits and Michael Jordan jerseys lands with a
thud amid a jostling swarm of shoppers. Read more
Trading tomorrow to eat today
World |
July 12, 2004
Machete in hand, Batire Baramo steps out of her mud hut before
dinnertime and begins whacking at the base of a struggling young tree. Read more
When the push for survival is a full-time job
World |
July 11, 2004
Every day is a fight for pennies. Read more
U.S. Has Stayed Out of Much of Africa’s Strife
World |
July 10, 2003
Blame it on “Black Hawk Down.” Read more
‘The Man Is Essentially a Common Criminal’
World |
July 7, 2003
Liberian President Charles Taylor’s record reads like a rap sheet:
U.S. jail escapee, diamond smuggler, arms trafficker. Read more
