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Ode to November and memories of autumn

India, Nov. 2 -- We don't really have an autumn in Delhi. Our summer merges into winter with only a brief transition heralded by the passage of Diwali. This means Keats's Ode to Autumn is just a poem ... Read More


Ode to November and memories of autumn

India, Nov. 1 -- We don't really have an autumn in Delhi. Our summer merges into winter with only a brief transition heralded by the passage of Diwali. This means Keats's Ode to Autumn is just a poem ... Read More


Mr Marco and Ms Deb,solving crimes in Kolkata

India, Oct. 26 -- We don't normally think of foreign secretaries as authors of detective fiction. But the day may not be far when Krishnan Srinivasan will be better known as the creator of Michael Mar... Read More


The works of Krishnan Srinivasan: Mr Marco and Ms Deb, solving crimes in Kolkata

India, Oct. 25 -- I We don't normally think of foreign secretaries as authors of detective fiction. But the day may not be far when Krishnan Srinivasan will be better known as the creator of Michael M... Read More


The ugly Indian and other stories of racism

India, Oct. 19 -- I was asked an interesting question last week: Are Indians racist? It was prompted by a news report which reads: "A 27-year-old flight attendant from Meghalaya has alleged that she w... Read More


The ugly Indian and other stories of racism

India, Oct. 18 -- I was asked an interesting question last week: Are Indians racist? It was prompted by a news report which reads: "A 27-year-old flight attendant from Meghalaya has alleged that she w... Read More


MF Husain: Man and myth, art and artist

India, Oct. 12 -- MF Husain is undoubtedly India's best known and perhaps most highly regarded modern artist. As an editorial in this newspaper put it last week, he is "arguably the most inventive art... Read More


MF Husain: Man and myth, art and artist

India, Oct. 11 -- MF Husain is undoubtedly India's best known and perhaps most highly regarded modern artist. As an editorial in this newspaper put it last week, he is "arguably the most inventive art... Read More


rMother Mary Comes to Mer: In which Arundhati gives it those ones

India, Oct. 4 -- Did you know Arundhati Roy has a first name which she's dropped? She writes in her new book that when she was 18, "I dropped my first name, Susanna. Starting then, I gradually, delibe... Read More


The home and the world, in a time of nationalism

India, Sept. 28 -- Is it no longer acceptable for an honest upstanding Indian to feel at home in Pakistan? After all, tens of millions of us were born in provinces that today comprise Pakistan. At the... Read More