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- India, the New Imperialist?
The old style imperialist that we all know about used to eye a nice, prosperous piece of land and then...
- Book Review: Jumping over Fire
I wonder why Jumping over Fire is not as well known as The Kite Runner. Nahid Rachin in this book...
- Movie Review: Rock On - Tum ho toh... - Celebrating Frindship
It was one of the new Airbus 320 planes that Air India has begun to introduce on its domestic routes....
- Happy Birthday, Sir!
The first birthday greeting I received a few days ago wasn’t from any of my friends. It was from an...
- Book Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh’s novels are all meticulously researched and Sea of Poppies is no exception. With the opium trade and the...
- India Goes to Vote
The world’s largest democracy, India, will hold general elections starting in a few weeks from now. In a country of...
- Indentured Laborers - The First Non-Resident Indians
When we think of NRIs today, we probably largely think of wealthy movers and shakers like Lakshmi Mittal or Swaraj...
- Coaching Classes - The Sweat Shops of Education
The son of a friend recently went away all the way from Delhi to Kerala to prepare for the medical...
- Book Review: India - A Million Mutinies Now : A Review from 2009
Trinidadian born Indian journalist-novelist V.S Naipaul wrote the book India – A Million Mutinies Now in the 1990s and over...
- The Party Manifesto - Promising Milk and Honey
Political party manifestos will never be great literature but they can be great works of fantasy. One that I have...
- India : 85th on Global Corruption Index
India’s Central Vigilance Commission has taken umbrage at a recent report of the Transparency International the global corruption tracking watch...
- India's Hidden Incest Crisis
Two instances of incest were widely talked about in the media over the last week. The first pertained to the...
- Jade Goody and the Sanctity of Death
I have always been fascinated by the Jain practice of Santhara. In this practice, when some one from the Jain...
- Delhi 6 - Kaala Bandaar - The Evil Within
A news bulletin on the television channel IBN 7 describing the havoc created by the “ kala bandaar” greets Abhishek...
- Book Review : Identity and Violence by Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen’s book, “Identity and Violence’ examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify with one key...
- Book Review: The Next Christendom
What does the future hold for Christianity? Many books have been written which make a case that secular forces will...
- Lonely at Sixty
A couple of days ago, I opened up the newspaper to read that an elderly couple living in an...
- Educating our Kids - The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
A school that I visited last week in Dehradun awakened me to one of the many changes that are quietly...
- Girls, Women and the Legacy of Mahatma Phule
It is common wisdom that literacy is a reasonably good indicator of development in a society. Increase and distribution of...
- If You Have It, Show It!
I ran down the stairs like every morning to find that the gate outside my home wouldn’t open fully and...
- Hepatitis - In HIV's Long Shadow
The story of the hepatitis B outbreak in Gujarat has not received the attention it deserves. More so because Hepatitis...
- Book Review: Suite Francaise
Suite Française is an interesting book for several reasons. The book is written by a Russian Jew and consists of...
- The Voice of America & Other Voices
It was another day and age when the cold war was still raging and the world was still multipolar. Sitting...
- Apathy, Activism, and The Line Between
The Christian community has typically been used to living a fairly sheltered and secluded life. The community has been largely...
- Book Review: When We Were Orphans
“When we were orphans” is a book that oozes gloom and depression like many others by Kasuo Ishigro. The book,...
- Affordable Health Care For the Poor
The other day there was a commotion in the office. An electrician having lunch suddenly collapsed and fell unconscious. He...
- Growing Up With Enid Blyton
I remember the time I checked out four books out of our local public library and brought them home. My...
- Broadband on Batteries
While booking an air ticket online the other day, there was a power cut just at the point when the...
- The Human DNA
As the violence in Jammu and Kashmir escalates beyond what bounces of our television screens, the vibrations are...
- India - Winter in August
The loud euphoria that we experienced when Abhinav Bindra won the Gold medal made me wonder about what might be...
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