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'Pepsu?' I frowned at the word. PEPSU? Where? How? Why didn't I know? Oddly enough, India did have a state by that name though o...

Wouldn't it be awesome if one could avoid trouble by declaring that the conditions in one's life are no longer conducive to the crea...

I have two poems in this new anthology of love poems from contemporary Indian poets. Makes for lovely gifts for loved ones. Makes for poetry...

And on a different, shorter route, I counted 59 pot-holes. Pot-hole counting is fast becoming my commute time-pass.

It is Independence day. I wish freedom and peace upon everyone. It also happens to be the month of Ramzan, which is a month of self-restrai...

Dear Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation You must be reading a lot about malaria, pot-holes in Mumbai these days. We (you and I) are not ...

All of which is pleasing: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100709/jsp/opinion/story_12659958.jsp http://www.deccanherald.com/content/81799/sea...

It was just something I felt instinctively to be true. Our khap honour is sullied most easily when caste is murking up the gotra waters. Now...

There are times, I believe, when there can be no reconciliation . None that I can imagine. People use that word so easily: reconciliation. R...

What, or rather, where do you think the writer is talking about? Subsidies on transport etc? "You will see the shiny metros with their ...

Rs 17 crore a day . A day! And that's just the monies on record. No wonder the stakes are so high. Maybe someone can nudge Bollywood in ...

I hope Bombay get some urinals too. I have mixed feelings about stepping out of home on a rare, clear afternoon in this gorgeous monsoon wea...

One has to love this country. If, in the midst of a minor parliamentary crisis in one of our most populous states, you can have images like...

Saw this piece, thanks to Nilanjana . American women reporters were barred from press briefings, banned from going nearer to the front ...

http://pratilipi.in/2010/06/world-class- annie-zaidi/

Monsanto has been a bad boy again! And has got one little rap on the knuckles for its lying, legal wigglsomeness. Makes you wonder... a com...

I've been away for a bit. Traveling in Madhya Pradesh, trying to reach a more clear understanding of displacement, particularly that of ...

This is not a judgmental post. I do not mean to bitch about how small the hearts of our Messrs Moneybags are. I just want to understand th...

It isn't over until it really is over. Like this great article says, the real tragedy of Bhopal is, perhaps, that it is still unfoldi...

The real Islamic crisis, I think, is this . "At the time I was learning to memorise the Koran from a very kind, mild-mannered teacher....