Just how important is the context in which something is said? How bound is a word to the time and place in which it is uttered, to the person saying...

Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma recently levelled some charges against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Verma even said that Yadav has...

A friend had to undergo surgery after being administered local anesthesia to make his body insensible hip downwards. He was lying on the bed of a...

There are serious faults with TV journalism in India. TV news channels cover a lot of things, provide a lot of views and analyse developments, but if...

January, February and March seem to have a close affiliation with great poets. Some brilliant poets of the present and past were born or died in these...

Valentine’s Day was followed the next day by the Hindu festival Vasant Panchmi, in which Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, is worshipped. It...

I was meeting my 10-year-old nephew studying in Class IV after many years. He asked me where I worked. I gave him the name of the English daily where...

It was 1984 and elections among students were being held in my school in Patna. The student council did not have any powers that it could use to make...

I lived in a house next to a ghat on the bank of the Ganga in Patna for about 21 years. The ghat is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and is called Gandhi...

The sound and light show I saw a few years back at Red Fort ended with Jawaharlal Nehru’s address to citizens of India the day it became independent....

How does an actor enter a role so completely that he becomes the character he is playing, even if the character is substantially removed from the...

A society might have been encountering wrongs of various kinds for a long time and anger might have been simmering against them in the public psyche...