Like many other coups, the one in Turkey last Friday had failure written all over it, right from the moment it began. There was no serious attempt to seize power or muzzle the administration, no leader ready to take over the cudgels, no communication between the plotters, no propaganda over …

As the aeroplane soars over the sprawling desert in southern Peru, the dull and pale monotony of sand and rocks keep changing into beautiful patterns of geometric shapes, zoomorphic designs of animals and some other phytomorphic shapes of trees & flowers. All this carved in the form of white lines …