India, Nov. 2 -- Elsewhere in the world, Dr Randall Sequeira would have been the toast of the nation. He would have been celebrated as a doctor who gave up the comforts of urban life to serve people w... Read More
India, Oct. 26 -- I am very happy to learn that today, October 22, is your 62nd birthday. Please accept my heartiest greetings on this happy occasion. May God grant you the wisdom, discernment and sen... Read More
India, Oct. 19 -- It was a friend in Houston, Texas, who first alerted me to the news that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 had gone to Navi Pillay, a South African jurist of Indian origin. He also sent... Read More
India, Oct. 12 -- I lived in Bhopal for four years and visited the Union Carbide factory several times for reporting. When poisonous gas leaked from the factory on the night of December 2-3, 1984, I r... Read More
India, Oct. 5 -- It is not the rich or the educated who have kept Indian democracy thriving. It is, more often than not, the poor. Let me begin with an anecdote. This happened in the 1990s. I was the... Read More
India, Sept. 28 -- I do not know who saved me that day in Assisi. I had just come out of the Basilica of St Francis after spending several hours looking at the murals depicting his life, his coarse h... Read More
India, Sept. 21 -- One elementary principle of serving food is to ensure that the food is palatable to the visitor. If I am alone at home, I may be perfectly happy having a glass of milk with some por... Read More
India, Sept. 14 -- When the Constitution of India was drafted, its treatment of women was remarkably progressive for its time. It guaranteed equality before the law, prohibited discrimination on the g... Read More
India, Sept. 7 -- If you ask me which was the greatest news story I reported or commented upon during my 53 years in journalism, I would answer without batting an eyelid: the eradication of smallpox f... Read More
India, Aug. 24 -- Dear Shri Harish Salve Ji, I usually do not watch television interviews, except when the interviewer is Karan Thapar, a habit I developed when he made his debut producing a weekly b... Read More