This tale waffles somewhere between wanting to grow up and wanting to be a snappy read for younger readers. Behind the concept of Santa Claus being an outdated, borderline negative influence, a politician drives a campaign to rid the holiday season ...

3 Dec 2008

A handsome military dog, German Shepherd and seemingly well-trained, rushed downhill, tied to it a smoking explosive package, the one as usually seen in any Chinese war movie, but suddenly with a loud explosion, the dog was bombed into shreds. This ...

3 Dec 2008

November was a big month for Boris Johnson . Policy initiatives flowed, on transport, on culture, on youth crime; some were still at the consultative stage but all have given shape and substance to a regime initially defined by its haplessness. For ...

3 Dec 2008

"Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media" will run until January 16, with a possible extension, at the Political Cartoon Gallery in central London. The exhibition shows the frequent use of classic anti-Semitism to ...

3 Dec 2008

Christmas has come a long way from those primitive days of yore. And I mean 20 years back on the tube. When Newsday ran my first column saluting a TV Christmas, collating the episodes was no biggie. Call a few networks, scan a couple of cable ...

3 Dec 2008

The five-year-old menacing Nohara boy — a hit with tots and teens across the country — has a Delhi connection. Akash Ahuja, a Class VIII student of New Era Public School, has for over two years helped Shin Chan entertain his young viewers in ...

3 Dec 2008