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
India, Oct. 26 -- "You are years behind Gullu. He got his PhD last year and has become a professor in the government college." My father has a knack for souring things early in the morning. The said G... Read More
India, Oct. 25 -- "You are years behind Gullu. He got his PhD last year and has become a professor in the government college." My father has a knack for souring things early in the morning. The said G... Read More
India, Oct. 19 -- There's a lot of dissing the 'Gram' (Instagram) these days. Let me, therefore, be contrarian and begin with a scandalous proposition: To truly know a person today, you must study the... Read More
India, Oct. 12 -- "Where are you from?" "India." "Oh, you don't look Indian." About 30 years ago, this conversation would have thrilled me as a child growing up near India's biggest tourist attraction... Read More