New Delhi, July 5 -- There is an eerie word in English called 'paramour.' It means lover, but when I was a kid, Indian newspapers used to invoke it only when a person and their 'paramour' killed the s... Read More
New Delhi, June 28 -- A few years ago, after yoga became a public spectacle of important but unfit men performing what they claimed were asanas, a minister went into shavasana, or the 'corpse pose,' a... Read More
New Delhi, June 21 -- If a person orders biryani on a date, it may be a way of saying, "no sex tonight." But that was not the sort of wisdom Himanshu Jangra seemed to possess. In fact, he felt that ju... Read More
New Delhi, June 14 -- Every decade or so, young people in India discover there is corruption, and they gather somewhere in Delhi to transform the nation. This happens under the influence of a charisma... Read More
New Delhi, June 7 -- As an Indian, my standards for public spaces are so low that what I admire in other countries is that their cars move in lanes. I am transfixed by images of Lebanese and Iranian p... Read More
New Delhi, May 31 -- I haven't read much of anything Catholic, not even the Bible. A few days ago, Pope Leo XIV issued an encyclical, which is Vatican for a 'circular.' Across more than 42,000 words, ... Read More
New Delhi, May 24 -- When motivational gurus say 'believe in yourself,' they mean delude yourself. But it works. Belief can make things happen, often by overriding caution and common sense. But the sa... Read More
New Delhi, May 17 -- In his first speech as chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Joseph Vijay said in Tamil, "I have known poverty; I've known hunger. I am not from some royalty." This whole country seems to... Read More
New Delhi, May 10 -- I thought only I knew. The Tamil actor Vijay, whom people have suddenly taken to calling Joseph Vijay after his political rivals revealed his full name, and who now heads the larg... Read More
New Delhi, May 3 -- The best business class flight I have ever taken was with Air India. As the flight was taxiing for take-off, it stopped on the tarmac. There was a snag, and we had to stay in the a... Read More