“... On 21 April​ , the financial trader Navinder Singh Sarao was arrested in West London. The US authorities are seeking to extradite him to stand trial in Illinois after charges were issued against him by the US Department of Justice. The DoJ alleges he was in the habit of ‘spoofing’ futures markets, by entering orders without genuinely intending to buy or sell, and that this contributed to his trading profits of about $40 million between 2010 and 2014 ...”

“... count on. The Arts Council Anthology is another collection of 15 stories, but by 14 authors (Carol Singh has two). The sort of generalisation to which a sequential reading invites us here is of course much trickier than that suggested by A Nail on the Head. Most of the stories were submitted in an Arts Council competition and some were printed in this ...”

“... families, stemming the flow. Most of the migrant workers had originally meant to stay a few years; go back with some money. But it didn’t often work out that way. Most of them stayed. Jonathon Green’s book is not easy reading, nor can it have been intended to be. He has interviewed 103 first-generation immigrants to Britain about their experiences. His ...”

“... the letters they sent home to mothers, fathers and brothers, mostly in the Punjab, are anything to go by. Similar letters home, sent by British soldiers to Surrey or Wolverhampton or Newcastle, were, it is true, mostly composed in the same vein: it was considered almost a military duty to sound cheery, and to conceal the real horrors of war from the folks back ...”

“... between 2022 and 2024.Art historians and curators, including Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe, Kavita Singh and R. Siva Kumar, have spent decades insisting on the importance of the postcolonial modern, and more broadly on modernism’s vast reach and varied interpretations. Tate Modern reflected this trend in one of its earliest exhibitions, Century City: Art and ...”

“... past is a foreign country,’ goes the famous opening sentence of L.P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between, ‘they do things differently there.’ But the photograph tells me to invert this idea: it reminds me that it’s my present that is foreign, and that the past is home, albeit a lost home in a lost city in the mists of lost time. A few years ago I ...”

“... with the IMF hovering and Gandhi’s chief economic adviser (and future prime minister), Manmohan Singh, calling for moderation, she reversed course. Nationalisation was shelved, wages frozen, deposits and dividends capped. Labour unrest was crushed. Increasing indirect taxation meant that the bulk of the economic burden was borne by the poor. This was ...”

“... end of the novel Bhaskar has embarked on a delayed honeymoon with his new wife. The young couple go by train and bus to Darjeeling. Mini has returned to the flat that she shares with her older sister. The two women worry about how they will manage in their old age. Khuku plans to visit them the following day. Chaudhuri empties his novel of events to free ...”

“... conduct. There is no good reason why such penalties, in the form of exemplary damages, should go into the pocket of a victim who has already been awarded proper compensatory damages, but every reason why a media outlet which casually violates people’s privacy or reputation in pursuit of circulation should find that such conduct does not pay. Yet ...”

“... in fact meant ‘by what means and in what circumstances’, and so it was appropriate to go into the details of what had happened and in particular to look at any official dereliction of duty that might be thought to have been causative. No doubt their lordships were much influenced by the statistics on prison deaths: in the years between 1990 and ...”

“... would turn down the crown.’ It was a shrewd move on her part, as was the choice of Manmohan Singh as prime minister, the first member of an ethnic minority to become the head of government. The choice pleased secularists at home and capitalists everywhere were thrilled that such a seasoned ‘reformer’ (i.e. supporter of deregulation and ...”

“... into the canteen to clean the floors, then loses this job as well and becomes a handyman for Mr Singh, his Bentley-driving landlord. The London he lives in, with its boarding houses and cowed inhabitants, might be the Dublin of Dubliners – it’s a territory McGahern returns to in his short stories; his Dublin nobodies are sometimes also moral ...”

“... been put at risk, not just in southern Africa but everywhere else too: above all in India. As Umr Singh, the Sikh mouthpiece of ‘A Sahib’s War’, dutifully puts it, in speaking of what he has witnessed during the war in South Africa: ‘It is for Hind [India] that the Sahibs are fighting this war. Ye cannot in one place rule and in another bear ...”

“... of financiers in London when news of the plague first emerged, the Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, architect of the New Economic Policy (India’s fast-forward version of Thatcherism) and the hero of millions of middle-class Indians, blamed the epidemic on loss-making public-sector units tying up valuable capital. Dr Lalith Nath, dean of the All-India ...”

“... naked and surrounded by a cordon of fellow protesters, on the service road in Delhi where Jyoti Singh Pandey – Nirbhaya, as she was called in the press – was thrown from a bus in 2012 by the men who had raped her. Both actions were recorded in Ban en Banlieue (2015), a book on ‘auto-sacrifice’ assembled by chance selection from dozens of ...”