New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- In a muddy lane in Gurugram, I approach a speed breaker that is half a metre high. I am not being figurative; it really is half a metre high. It's not a mound or any other natura... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- When I tell Indians that we have immense stamina for useless issues, no one asks me to explain 'useless.' Even people who disagree that the issues are useless miraculously know w... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- There are raids underway in a few cities to check if the food they store or make is safe for me. They are unearthing factories that make fake milk with shampoo and emulsifier; ne... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- James Bond villains and Anthropic's CEO say the same things. That they have built something that can end the world. The difference is that Dario Amodei appears to feel bad about i... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- A reason why the recent student protests were a triumph is that they were highly entertaining, though not for everyone. And they were fun because India has become such a suffocati... Read More
New Delhi, July 26 -- For decades there has been a covenant between India and its young-pass these entrance exams, and you are set. You can then escape India, physically and even within India. It was... Read More
New Delhi, July 19 -- What ruined cinema was equality. Making a film was once expensive, hence scarce. Only a few people born in the right homes or the handful who got lucky, as though nature wanted t... Read More
New Delhi, July 12 -- Thousands of Indians who were safe in the pandemic because they were locked inside have since perished because they stepped out. Or their homes caught fire, or collapsed in the r... Read More
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