He was nearly four when his grandfather took him to Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar, along with his uncle on April 13, 1919. It was Baisakhi,...
Hot is the word for the man. If I had time I would have plotted to snare this latest heart throb of mine but as with all things academic an...
On this day – September 11 in 2001 – the sun set on crushed buildings in New York. Thousands of lives were lost as the twin towers fell and ...
A close friend wanted to go to a striptease club this weekend. I love my girlfriend but I declined as I have no fascination for watching alm...
The hall was packed with 600 wannabe writers. As the name Deepak Chopra was announced, there was a thunderous applause. As an Indian sitting...
In class four at the Maria Montessori School in Fire Brigade, Mustafa and Razia were newly enrolled. They had just come from Canada. It was ...
Kate at the gym must be feeling like a dinosaur every time she meets me. I chew her brain. “So, which exercise is good for reducing the fa...
What is it with Indians and their intrusive obsession about marriage? My sister recently paid her girlfriend a visit. The girlfriend lives i...
Every Thursday, a motley group of 15 of us sit down at the CAE (Centre for Adult Education) in the city and discuss English threadbare. The...
I am interested in people. I don’t know why. I like to talk to people and know all about their lives, well if not everything, most things. A...
In 2003, three young sisters staged their debut performance of Bharatnatyam, called the Arangetram, at the Besan Centre, Mount Scopus Memori...
I love SBS and its plethora of world movies which bring the whole gambit of human emotions and drama right before you. Some of these are fil...
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... the captain has not switched off the seat belt signs, so please remain seated.” In a sing-song tun...
I have always had a romantic vision of Pune – scenic, polite people, few good colleges. I had heard of the Rajneesh Ashram there, which whe...
Landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, I was in for a surprise. The airport has got a face lift. Despite the bad press, the Co...
If you are single and living in India, it is but natural that you would be asked, “ Shaadi nahi huwi? (You are not married?)” You see, it i...
On a warm evening at St Kilda Road, dancers from India’s north eastern state of Manipur enthralled an audience and had them wanting for mor...
A cruel January. Like an inland tsunami, giant floods came gushing in many Australian towns and cities last month and almost paralysed a na...
The ashes of Indian hawker Pooran Singh going back to India after 63 years made headlines and opened Indians to a world hitherto unknown, t...
I do not make any New Year resolutions as resolutions are only meant to be broken, after firmly holding on to them for a while. My first mo...
