Known Turf

There's a Delhi blogger's meet happening on Sunday. Unfortunately, I am not in town on that day (no, really, I swear I'm not), ...

Indians have a morbid fear of the body. (Oh, everyone else does too. All cultures, in their own way, are afraid of the human body. Afraid w...

When I began to research this business of child domestic labour, the first thing I had to grapple with was the complicated links between th...

According to a new study , levels of obesity are going up not just because of our sedentary lifestyles and unhealthier processed foods, but ...

Went to Osian . I have yet to see anything fantastic (having made the mistake of leaving early, and thus, inadvertantly abandoning Paradise ...

"Someone can only be strong for the future when they remember the suffering of the past ... this gives them roots." - Hero Ahmad ....

A former roommate asked me a question once. She'd said, "Why are muslims so violent?" I felt insulted by the question, but lo...

Chai is not just to kick you awake, not just to keep you rooted, not just to welcome you home, not just to assuage hunger when food isn'...

What I want to know is, what is the frog thinking?

I do not use credit cards. The underlying philosophy being that it would only encourage me to spend what I didn't have and would charge ...

I am home. But it only registered in that moment when I stepped from the plane into the immigration/customs' area at Delhi's airport...

A friend mentioned that my name was entrenched in the midst of a pitted blog-war over at Great Bong's . I followed the thread (which, o...

Here I was, lounging through desipundit , thinking how lucky I am to live in times when we can demand gender sensitivity, when wise people a...

What? What? What? What is wrong with them? And now that I'm angry, I might as well say that I have often wondered why the RSS doesn...

Speaking of crows , according to nature writer Candace Savage, crows can make tools, play tricks on each other, and caw among kin in a diale...

People have often thrown strange tags at me – this - is t and that - ist. Now, there are several online tests that will give you your tags i...

Update: I hear the last date has been stretched forward until June 10th. There is a travel-writing contest on, for bloggers . I had written ...

Recently, I finished reading a book called Machhli Mari Hui , by Rajkamal Chowdhary. It is not a new book – probably written in the sixties,...

Here's another blog I’ve been following with a great deal of interest. Via this blog, we hear of the great tragedy of the Jarawas , and...

A story from nine years ago, in Lucknow. I was enrolled at Aptech for a computer course and had shifted location to Lucknow during the summe...