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Last fortnight, traveling to Makrana, while I struggled to read on the berth above, the three other people in the compartment discussed the ...

I'm not a scientist. I'm not a food expert. I'm not even sure I'm wholly receptive to the new and the un-tried/ un-tested. A...

Religious leaders have their merits. They're an endless source of amusement, for one, as reported here . One's imagination may be fo...

Cities have resident spirits. By spirit, I don't mean, soul. No, 'soul' is just not definite enough. The soul of a city is - pe...

In a small town near Jodhpur, saw a cow chewing at Celina Jaitley's bikini. The cow was calmly munching away strips of paper off a wall,...

I've been trying - unsuccessfully - to link to an outspoken young woman's blog and although I've gone and planted the link into...

Opinionated had tagged me, asking me for a list of favourite movies, and though I didn't really want to do lists - mostly because it is...

So Gudiya is dead. And, let's face it, as far as we're concerned, she's been dead a long time. She briefly came alive when she ...

My grandfather used to say that what we call 'love' is not as simple as a single four-letter word. There are four levels to feeling...

Tell me what a good movie means, to you, and I'll tell you where a good movie's playing. That, in essence, is the magic of cinema. O...

For the last couple of years, I've stopping doing something that I once thought I could spend a lifetime doing: reviews. I had set out ...

There's a blogger's meet happening in Delhi. 2nd January, 6:30 pm, Barista, Connaught Place. Apparently, Amit Varma , from Bombay, ...

Shit happens. It happens, because we let it happen. We don't lift a finger to stop it happening. What is really infuriating, to me, is n...

Once upon a time, people sold ' chaai-chaichaigaramchaaaai ', on railway platforms and in train corridors. Now, they sell ' dip ...

Prejudice or values, I'm learning, are a function of perspective, and directly proportional to one's range of experience. Take, for...

This time is a friend of my brother's, Jay (as in, Jai). Jay is the first Jai I knew. Now I know of two other Jai s, both well-known b...

A while ago, I attended a press conference that didn't result in a story. To tell the truth, I did not even stay until the end of the co...

Last week, a senior journalist asked me to fill up a questionnaire about women in media, gender parity and suchlike issues. She warned that ...

This is something I've been wanting to say for a long time. To quote Sad Old Bong, I too " take issue with the general trashing of...

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...