India, April 6 -- With Good Friday gone, and Easter upon us, there's one picture that doesn't leave the mind: Three crosses on a hill. One in the centre. Two on either side. And in the middle, a man w... Read More
India, March 30 -- Many years ago, sitting in a charming little cafe perched like a contented cat atop Malabar Hill, my wife and I made one of the wisest decisions of our lives. We decided to get marr... Read More
India, March 9 -- Across the world, women celebrate freedom. Hard-won freedom. The right to vote. The right to work. The right to choose their partners. The right to equal pay. The right to stand up a... Read More
India, Feb. 20 -- A few days ago, the newspapers did not just carry a headline. They carried a memory. Three men sentenced to death for gang rape and murder. Clinical words. Legal words. Necessary wo... Read More
India, Feb. 16 -- At the farthest edge of a village, where people once lived in harmony, but in the last eleven years had not, a white-bearded chief stood staring into the horizon. His bald deputy sto... Read More
India, Feb. 9 -- I read the news and blinked twice. Then I rubbed my glasses. Then I read it again. The Prime Minister was advised not to attend Parliament because the Speaker could not guarantee his ... Read More
India, Feb. 2 -- Someone powerful is suddenly no more. Someone who occupied space in the national consciousness. Someone who had arrived. To see a person taken away at the height of influence is dist... Read More
India, Jan. 26 -- The courtroom of the International Court of Justice was unusually quiet that morning. Even the translators had stopped whispering into their microphones. The judge adjusted his glass... Read More
India, Jan. 12 -- Sixty-nine candidates elected unopposed! Just like that. No ballot papers warmed by human fingers. No queues outside schools. No indelible ink on proud index fingers. Democracy, app... Read More