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A few days ago, there was much relief when Ajmal Kasab, the man who killed innocent people in Mumbai, would hang after all. The Supreme Co...

So word is that our billionaire Member of Parliament Vijay Mallya, donated doors worth Rs60 lakh to a temple. With Kingfisher Airlines in ...

I don’t know much about Latehar, a district in Jharkhand, and what’s been happening there. When I ran a search online, I found one news i...

When the latest rape-related story came to us via the morning papers, it came with some form of visuals attached. An attempted rape leadi...

So, Independence Day is around the corner. I thought it would be interesting to take a very literal look at freedom. In the sense of who ...

What do you call a man who promises you a job if you agree to part with a portion of your wealth in exchange? A man you should be wary of. ...

Our eyes first locked across the street but I may be mistaken about that. Across a street, things look different from what they are. ...

Remember that delicate old song ‘ ajeeb dastaan hai ye ’ (what a strange tale this is)? It’s a romantic sort of lyric, but I often feel a...

The wind was strong enough to drown out the feeble sounds of a group walking up to the tiny market in Rekong Peo. They had probably ‘marche...

“Earlier, people just did as they were asked. Or, they sniffed at the wind and followed its bent. Now, people note which way the wind is bl...

In which I expose my maha-random musical tastes and hold forth on eggs as a philosophy to live by. http://cityfm89.com/annie-zaidi-on-89-c...

I was in transit through Delhi recently when I spotted an ageing gentleman at a metro station. He stood out in the evening rush hour crowd...

Humans discovered that seeds could be put in the soil, to get more fruits and vegetables and grain. This caused humans to settle down in ...

24 kids ‘disappear’ everyday in Madhya Pradesh alone. Between 2003 and 2011, the total figure was as high as 75,521, with the chart peaking ...

Two extracts from two pieces worth reading: " A plan to stop the destruction of the world’s oceans was blocked by the US, Canada and...

I thought it worthwhile to reiterate this — the President does represent us. As ‘First Citizen’, he (or she) signs off on our future. He ...

Recently, watching the documentary  Supermen of Malegaon  — which is the funniest, most empathetic film I’ve seen this year — I began to ...

Infrastructure and colonialism make me think of Lord Dalhousie. I read recently that he built the Grand Hindustan Tibet road in 1850. Acco...

So I made this short film. 'Engine' was entered into a contest organised by humaramovie, where the main draw was a brief...

Last week, in Rohtak, a young man who sold boiled eggs for a living was reportedly beaten up as he tried to stop other young men from sna...