T R Baalu, V N Venugopal, V Ravichandran, V Sudhavalli. Sriperumbudur votes on Apr 19. The last date for filing nominations in Sriperumbudur was Mar 27, and the last date for withdrawing nominations ...

On Valentine’s Day 1984, Baalu vanished in what history has recorded as an act of revenge by the regime, cementing Oromay’s status as a modern Ethiopian classic. The translation by David ...

Oromay, a novel set in Eritrea during the campaign, was published in Ethiopia the following year. Its author, Baalu Girma, a well-known Ethiopian journalist recruited by the regime to work as a ...

Among other strands, that’s precisely what this fabled Ethiopian novel of 1983 delivers. Which is remarkable, given that Baalu Girma’s semi-autobiographical thriller of rebellion and repression, love ...