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A rebel...not by choice, but by chance
Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. . .they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute...
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When was the last time you did something for the first time? I did it two summers ago. I decided to fall in love with travelling.
I had never been...
As our phones become smarter, they also become more complex. They come with sophisticated chips and lots and lots of software to run all of the applications...
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800 wickets, 50 Test tons and all that
Muttiah Muralitharan’s 800 Test wickets and Sachin Tendulkar’s approach towards 50 Test centuries have created a foggy weather. Stats-minded people appear to be...
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Murali has hit the nail and rightly so. He has done what no senior cricketer has done so far. He has finally (maybe not in so many words) told Bishen Singh Bedi...
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Our government loves beating around the bush. It's convenient, it shows the public that they are trying and it takes little effort. After backing down a few...
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Why fake encounters kill growth
FAKE encounters are anti-growth, and strike at the roots of the institutions that enable individual creativity to flourish and economies to prosper....
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Caught out between covering up and baring it all
The first inspiration for this post came as I was preparing for a Brazilian-themed party thrown by my best friend, and compatriot, in London. She was...
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Common wealth, uncommon destinies
So we hear Mani Shankar Aiyar talk about two Indias again. Bharat and India. In an article penned by him and circulated on the web, Mani Shankar Aiyar has...
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When fast breeder means less power
Some years ago, a month after I relocated back home, my chairman in the US, joyously wrote, "A new Fellow recently joined the department. He is an Indian...
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The release of over 90,000 pages of classified material about the US war in Afghanistan on whistleblower website Wikileaks has plunged the US into turmoil. The...
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Tropical Fruit Verrines ... a simple baking break
It's time for a baking break. I've got a kitchen under the hammer, in the sense that it is being demolished for an face-lift , so the oven is currently...
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'Aman Ki Bhaasha' is the way forward
Who would have thought a year ago that we would have been blaming talk, or more precisely, too much talk for derailing Indo-Pak ties? In July last year the...
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Among the email responses to my first post on Paul's crunchy, clairvoyant cousins, were a few asking where one could get octopus in India. Octopus, as in,...
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Mani Shankar Aiyer lives in Safdarjung Lane. The road is one of umpteen in Lutyens’Delhi stretches where perfectly fine dividers/pavements have been dug up and...
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