The fate of over 250 “economic migrants,” most of whom came to Tamil Nadu in the last 12 to 15 months after the economic crisis erupted in Sri Lanka, remains in limbo. Last year, the State government released nearly ₹50 lakh towards meeting the expenditure. A perceptive feature of the “economic migrants” is their familiarity with Tamil Nadu. Informally, many …
LOS PATIOS, Colombia — Arbelys Briceño fixed her eyes on the chicken soup in the plastic container set before her, the first warm meal she’d had in days. That huge migration slowed as the pandemic cut economic opportunities and complicated travel across the region and as Venezuela’s socialist government adopted reforms that slowed the country’s economic free-fall and gave some …
A few miles along the coast from Folkestone, Hythe is its sleepier, smaller and more conservative neighbour. In his 1900 account of the Cinque Ports, Kent-based Ford Madox Ford wrote that: “The pervading charm of the town is that of sleep … One is back in a century – some beatific century which one cannot name – where – nothing …
