Known Turf

I'm not a musuem buff. There was a time when, whenever I had time to spare in a city, I'd hit the forts, the museums, the significa...

Outside the government hospital in Morena, the city's journalists were sitting on dharna. One of the journalists from one of the Hindi d...

One gets used to anything. One even begins to find - and seek! - amusement through one's own inconvenience. Like when you are in a third...

I must say I'm rather amused by the last blogosphere controversy which I awoke to rather late. I saw the TOI report about the Delhi blo...

Family... and the day turns into a caravan of chai-breaks, inching forward along the beaten track of warm conversations. Kashmiri chai - no...

Train journeys have a special significance for me. When they aren't teaching me about society and humanity, they're telling me t...

I'd been reading; I'd been listening - with my usual mixture of reactions ranging from 'but how?' and 'don't tell me...

A few days ago, I came across this report in the Asian Age (no link available, though I know it appeared in the Delhi edition, on 20th or 21...

ok, blog plugging time. This is my unabashedly Opinionated brother.

This is absurd. Whether the news is true or not, whether the alleged fatwa is justified or not, is secondary. What intrigues me is the bit...

I often wonder what karmic contract oversees our mornings. What stipulates, for instance, that one morning I will get up and be greeted by a...

It's taken me three days to compose this. To snap out of this spell of fatigue caused by people who like to call themselves educationist...

The South Asia Quake Help blog (for news, information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts) is up here . Do what you can!

In another language, I've said before , I have a special bond with Allahabad. This time, I discovered some of the reasons why I like All...

Aloneness is an inviting thing. Especially to essentially small-town people, driven to the big cities. People who have learnt to seek silenc...

We (my immediate family) have a rather tenuous relationship with religion. Like a now on-now, now-off affair between lovers who really don...

Mid-day has a report - cabbie asks tourist for kiss - which, while it is all rather pathetic, brings back scary memories from four years ago...

Having spent four days in Chhattisgarh, doing what I do - consuming substantial quantities of chai - I realise what a grave mistake it is to...

A few days ago, I read a column by Pamela Philipose where she says " we confront one of the most assiduously cultivated fears in tradi...

On our way to the villages in Morena's rural regions, I muse, " Six lakhs each, eh ? Multiplied by seven. Are the stakes that high ...