New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- Your columnist woke up one morning in America to find the news outlets abuzz with the story of President Donald Trump evading an assassination attempt by hiding in an airline cat... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- In some respects,whenGen Z(spearheadedby the Cockroach Janta Party)protestedIndia's corrupt examination system in July, it echoed theUS'Gen Z movementwhere students protested the ... Read More
New Delhi, July 30 -- Afterlivingin America for a month, one notices a resemblance between Home MinisterAmit ShahandPresident Donald Trump's political advisorStephen Miller,whoholds the titlesof deput... Read More
New Delhi, July 23 -- On the streets of Brooklyn, in the bluest district in New York, one of the USA's bluest (Democrat) states, there is a sullen silence over the deaths of three more American soldie... Read More
New Delhi, July 16 -- Six months into his job, and New York City's (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces, despite a hectic agenda of providing welcome relief forworking classresidents, a lot of hostility f... Read More
New Delhi, July 9 -- Over the weekend, America celebrated its 250thbirthday, technically its "semi-quincentennial" or its "quarter-millennial" Independence Day.Incidentally, this columnist was here, i... Read More
New Delhi, July 7 -- A 'battery management system' is a small microcontroller inside a lithium-ion pack. It regulates charge and discharge, and in the cheap packs powering most of Delhi's e-rickshaws,... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- America is a different planet from the rest of Earth. Don't get taken in by talk about the rising standards of living in other countries, or by America's societal division, etc. T... Read More
New Delhi, June 25 -- For a football World Cup enthusiast, the past weekend proved to be surreal as theAll IndiaFootball Federation (AIFF)proposed that its namebe changedtotheFootball Federation of Bh... Read More
New Delhi, June 18 -- Almostafortnightago, an emailarrived. It wasinGmail,through which I had startedmy Twitter account (@autumnshade)back in 2007, and it said that theaccount-linkedemail addresshad b... Read More