Known Turf

This post on Dilip's blog led me to re-read an email I'd received a few days ago. It referred to a legal precedent (albeit in a dif...

One of these days, I'm going to look for the guy who drafts our laws. For instance, look at section 29 (1) of the Protection of Plant Va...

When I last spoke to Dr Krishna Bir Chowdhary (chairman of the Bhartiya Krishak Samaj), he'd said one of those things I will not easily ...

Here a scam, there a scam, everywhere a scam-scam... and now they use the dogs to make some dirty money. According to a report in Mid-day , ...

Majaz, years and years ago, had spoken for the muflisi (poverty?) of many a poet, when he put loneliness, desperation, frustration, rebellio...

And here is an interesting post about how all that silly media hype about 'staunch Londoners' is utter nonsense. He says, " Ra...

I’ve tried hard not to rant about Osian, but there’s only so much justifiable restraint. The last day of the film festival was undoubtedly t...

Beteeen gorging films, here are the firsts of the festive season: Spotted my first mini-skirt yesterday ( though it was on a middle-aged wom...

A very quick update (since I am missing one whole movie to allow myself this post) from the ongoing Osian film festival in Delhi: - Jabberwo...

I am very glad that my browser was giving me trouble when I first heard about this post , because, although my immediate reaction was to tel...

As I'm bending to drink water from clearer-than-clear springs , just having lunched on apricots, I realise I'm being watched by thre...

Neela asks me :  I am curious about why bloggers advocate not reading their blog as the solution to anyone who criticizes their writing. Wou...

Here's proof that where there's a strong will, there's an unbeatable way. "The sarpanch of Doraha village in Madhya Pradesh...

If life were a rail-ka-dabba , where you don’t have a reserved berth, you’d learn a lot of lessons. Humility, for one. And the old, old less...

The thing with blogs is - they have to be updated. And the thing with me is - I usually blog either when I'm exceptionally angry, or whe...

Having heard testimonies from various women panchayat functionaries, and having watched them interact with some bigwigs of democracy, here a...

Ah, Jaunsar Bawar... In Garhwal, so I've heard, every mother tells her grown sons - 'son, do not go upto Jaunsar-Bawar; if you must ...

Stepping into that hall at Doon School was a bit of a shock. Sure, I knew hill-women are known to be part of political history, to be less r...

Someday, go up to the hills - up, up and up. Up the narrow 'highway', which cannot allow two cars to pass , simultaneously - where t...

I was talking to Hindi media critic and writer Sudhish Pachauri, about what is wrong with the modern (Hindi) literary climate in this count...