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It took me a long time getting comfortable with this idea, but here it is: I like filmi music. Despite all those music appreciaion courses,...

Not far from Rishikesh, there is a village called Chorpani (so called, because of the stealthy streams; in this particular valley, the water...

Came across this quote: " There should be a limit, even to the means of keeping ourselves alive. Even for life itself, we should not do...

Delhi's pretty much passed the test, as far I'm concerned. When I moved here, from bombay, five months ago, I was told the most horr...

Speaking of land and Chhatisgarh, I was told (off the record, strictly) by some government officials that much of the tribal land in this re...

The rest of my story will follow later, but I simply must blog this - A public notice was issued by the Water Resources Ministry, in Chhatti...

C*S*F has been discussing conflict-reporting (though I wonder, since more than eighty percent of all reporting involves conflict of some so...

Lesson learnt today: Using the people's language has nothing to do with using a certain language. I appreciate the kind of trouble NGOs ...

Just a curious observation: When I was traveling up to Tehri (where they've been at that dam(n) project for the last forty years), I not...

When I begin a story - before I write it, before I set out to investigate it, before I even open my mouth at the edit meetings - I check out...

It's interesting to think of the economy in Buddhist terms . After all, The Middle Path does lend itself admirably to something that In...

Ok, it may seem as if the blog is turning into a rabidly feminist one, but I can't stop grinning about THIS . I've long held this fi...

According to legend, in Kalyug , the Ganges, north India's holiest of rivers, will dry up, disappear or become invisible somehow. The di...

Not that I needed an online quiz to tell me this - but it seems I am part-liberal, part-libertarian in my politics. In fact, they say I'...

I think a lot about my country, when I travel on assignment. Especially of what a 'home' country means. Lately, I've been given ...

In the context of women's day ( belatedly, I know... but like I said, I'm going to claim the whole damn calendar ) I can't help ...

A friend's father had once said, of the bosses at Kantipur, Nepal's biggest media organisation, "For the owners of such a big m...

For the first time in months, I find myself wishing I could do a 'soft' story. I know I shouldn't be wishing such things. There ...

A little late in the day, considering 'Women's Day' has come and gone, but my friend J , sent this to me and I'm linking to ...

The high-pitched paeans for women (so lovely, so accomplished, so smart... let us salute them) are all over the newspapers. Again. As a rule...