India, Nov. 16 -- "You were engaged in a deeply intellectual conversation on his reverse ageing," pinged this author's phone with several photos and this text, suitably punctuated by winks and smileys... Read More
India, Nov. 15 -- "You were engaged in a deeply intellectual conversation on his reverse ageing," pinged this author's phone with several photos and this text, suitably punctuated by winks and smileys... Read More
India, Nov. 10 -- Last month, this author wrote the obituary of politeness only to be forced to write this more qualified sequel, positing politeness to be a one-way street only a select few are entit... Read More
India, Nov. 2 -- "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the society", said Percy Bysshe Shelley in 19th-century England while critiquing the many colonial projects his motherland was going stron... Read More
India, Oct. 26 -- "You are years behind Gullu. He got his PhD last year and has become a professor in the government college." My father has a knack for souring things early in the morning. The said G... Read More
India, Oct. 25 -- "You are years behind Gullu. He got his PhD last year and has become a professor in the government college." My father has a knack for souring things early in the morning. The said G... Read More
India, Oct. 19 -- There's a lot of dissing the 'Gram' (Instagram) these days. Let me, therefore, be contrarian and begin with a scandalous proposition: To truly know a person today, you must study the... Read More
India, Oct. 12 -- "Where are you from?" "India." "Oh, you don't look Indian." About 30 years ago, this conversation would have thrilled me as a child growing up near India's biggest tourist attraction... Read More
India, Oct. 11 -- "Where are you from?" "India." "Oh, you don't look Indian." About 30 years ago, this conversation would have thrilled me as a child growing up near India's biggest tourist attract... Read More
India, Sept. 28 -- In a twist of irony, in my 40th year on this planet, I received a Barbie Doll from my daughter. I never bought her one in my joyless, righteous, feminist young mother avatar. I may ... Read More