India, Jan. 5 -- Rama Duwaji, the artist-wife of a young man who's created history, is making many of us nervous. How dare she not play second fiddle to Zohran Mamdani, the first ever Muslim mayor of ... Read More
India, Dec. 28 -- The outfit is ready, the tickets are booked, conveyance is mostly sorted, and if all goes well and no hooligans disrupt the festivities, it will be a happy New Year's Eve. In another... Read More
India, Dec. 20 -- "Abhi mummy ki chappal Atlantic ke upar se udti hui aayegi!" (Mummy's flying slipper will reach me across the Atlantic.) The chat history of my cousins' group on WhatsApp, rather ap... Read More
India, Dec. 14 -- Baaton se kuchh nahi hota hai, sirf ishq se hota hai. When Rekha speaks, everyone listens - even when she speaks to undermine speech. Honoured at the recently concluded Red Sea Inte... Read More
India, Dec. 7 -- Sitting in a friend's dining hall, a silent witness to the history of the subcontinent, in Lucknow, I was reminded of Dr BR Ambedkar in a rather bathetic manner. It was recalled durin... Read More
India, Nov. 30 -- "You must be seated by 9," instructed our tickets to a dinner performance at Minton's, the legendary jazz lounge in Harlem. It was a stroke of luck that allowed us entry many years a... Read More
India, Nov. 16 -- "You were engaged in a deeply intellectual conversation on his reverse ageing," pinged this author's phone with several photos and this text, suitably punctuated by winks and smileys... Read More
India, Nov. 15 -- "You were engaged in a deeply intellectual conversation on his reverse ageing," pinged this author's phone with several photos and this text, suitably punctuated by winks and smileys... Read More
India, Nov. 10 -- Last month, this author wrote the obituary of politeness only to be forced to write this more qualified sequel, positing politeness to be a one-way street only a select few are entit... Read More
India, Nov. 2 -- "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the society", said Percy Bysshe Shelley in 19th-century England while critiquing the many colonial projects his motherland was going stron... Read More