NEW DELHI, April 15 -- Punjab is a beautiful state with wonderful people. I'd planned to visit the Golden Temple and Jallianwala Bagh, and I did, but before that, I visited the ninety-four-year-old Ed... Read More
NEW DELHI, April 8 -- What has Easter, which has just gone by, got to do with Democracy, you ask, a furrow on your brow and a look of slight annoyance. We hear the United States and Germany reacting t... Read More
NEW DELHI, March 25 -- "These judges," swore the village chieftain as he stood at the edge of his village along with his deputy and looked back at the village they ruled together. "Something is wrong ... Read More
NEW DELHI, March 18 -- The house with a flag flying atop it looked with disdain at the neighbouring home with no flag on it. "No flag?" it asked. "It's an invisible one I fly!" said the home with no ... Read More
NEW DELHI, March 11 -- The present government seems to be pressing all the right buttons to return for a third term. They are projecting the prime minister as a powerful figure in the international ar... Read More
NEW DELHI, March 4 -- Yes, oops, is what the people in Mumbai said, who drove their cars across the newly repaired Gokhale bridge, connecting Andheri East and West, drove high above the railway line, ... Read More
NEW DELHI, Feb. 26 -- Last evening, I smiled at the vegetable puff my wife brought me with my tea. It wasn't the puff or tea that made me smile, but the tomato ketchup poured quite lavishly for me. I ... Read More
NEW DELHI, Feb. 19 -- I was saddened to hear that 'Churchgate', the most recognised railway station in the country, was being renamed. Churchgate, signified many decades ago, the entrance gate to the ... Read More
NEW DELHI, Feb. 5 -- On silver sands on a beachfront, my pair of reading glasses looked myopically at the sea. I discovered they were missing only after reaching home. Couldn't find my spare pair eith... Read More
NEW DELHI, Jan. 22 -- It's a long walk he's settled himself to do, from Manipur to Mumbai! Six thousand seven hundred and thirteen kilometres! Stretching and arduous, it's going to be, but tis not t... Read More