India, April 30 -- Kakinada is a picturesque, sleepy town next to the sea on the eastern coast. Not as big as Visakhapatnam or Vijaywada, Kakinada nevertheless represents and symbolises what people in... Read More
India, April 23 -- The highway from Jamshedpur towards Kolkata is superb. People having tea at a Dhaba in Ghatshila in Jharkhand turn out to be Nitin Gadkari fans. As the author entered West Bengal an... Read More
India, April 22 -- Tens of thousands of devotees are lining up patiently at 6 AM as we exit the spanking new car parking bay and move towards the Jagannath Temple. People who have come to Puri after a... Read More
India, April 8 -- The Samajwadi Party chief took time off from his hectic campaigning schedule to visit Ghazipur on April 7 to meet Mukhtar Ansari's family members. He has demanded a probe led by a Su... Read More
India, March 24 -- Last month in Ayodhya, I witnessed a surge of simple devotion and spirituality among the faithful. And beyond faith, it was not difficult to sense political implications. Also in F... Read More
India, March 17 -- Forget Ayodhya, the contrast with even Assam and North Bengal was starkly visible as the car moved from the Coimbatore airport towards the city. In central Uttar Pradesh and even As... Read More
India, March 15 -- One is a commerce graduate who worked as an accountant at a firm in Nowgaon before deciding to run ataxi service. The other too is a commerce graduate from Jagdishpur who has become... Read More
India, March 12 -- Mubaraq speaks suave and flawless English of the kind only long spells in a good old-fashioned convent school teaches you. Dressed in an elegant black sherwani, Mubaraq reveals a so... Read More
India, March 12 -- Mubaraq speaks suave and flawless English of the kind only long spells in a good old-fashioned convent school teaches you. Dressed in an elegant black sherwani, Mubaraq reveals a so... Read More
India, March 3 -- The sky was so smothered in fog that visibility was near zero at a little beyond 5 am. As we hustled beyond the first set of barricades, I heard a family chatter excitedly in Marathi... Read More