India, March 8 -- Last week, at the conclave of a national TV channel, I was in an interesting debate on the question of religious customs and traditions, and the right to change them, either by citiz... Read More
India, March 1 -- Are Indians, individually and as a society, kind or cruel to animals? On the surface, compassion should come naturally. Many worship the cow as a mother, revere the monkey as a manif... Read More
India, Feb. 21 -- Can we infer that in sports, a team's performance reflects, in some sense, the psychic health of a nation? I ask this question after watching the India-Pakistan T20 World Cup cricket... Read More
India, Feb. 15 -- India is often described as a civilisation of grand metaphysics, soaring philosophies, and intricate systems of thought. Yet, beneath the elevated abstractions of the Upanishads and ... Read More
India, Feb. 8 -- As legatees of an ancient civilisation, Indians like to believe that they have an uninterrupted cultural memory. We invoke our past easily, and often with pride. Yet when one looks fo... Read More
India, Feb. 1 -- Like many Indians, I too was upset when the Beating Retreat at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi, which marks the culmination of the Republic Day celebrations, stopped the tradition of ending ... Read More
India, Jan. 24 -- My wife and I spent two nights at Ganga Kutir, the new Taj Hotel built in collaboration with the Neotia Group, two hours beyond Kolkata, where the river appears to be as wide as the ... Read More
India, Jan. 11 -- Long before the language of celebrity culture hardened into public relations and damage control, the lives of Bollywood's leading actors unfolded with a porous intimacy, seeping into... Read More
India, Jan. 4 -- I am writing this column from Goa, where my family and I escape every winter, when Delhi is shrouded in smog and biting cold, for a few days of relief. Here, the skies are blue, the a... Read More
India, Dec. 27 -- Last week, I attended the first Nalanda Literature Festival at Rajgir, which is close to Nalanda, in Bihar. It is a commendable initiative, and Ganga Kumar, its prime mover, deserves... Read More