Amid all their stress and tension over the Chinese entanglements up in the Himalayas, the wise mandarins of the South Block seem to have been napping even as the Dragon waded through the Palk Strait off Tamil Nadu. At a time when Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene was among the weakest heads of state in the Asian continent and …
Rameswaram: Bharathan, a Rameswaram fisherman who ‘went missing’ after his fishing boat capsized in 1996 while he was fishing on the high seas, is alive 23 years later. The family had given up all hopes of his survival, when Rajesh, the fisherman’s grand nephew, an auto-rickshaw driver in Rameswaram, ‘spotted him’ among beggars while watching a YouTube clipping of a …
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