These have been truly turbulent years. So much has happened over the last six years that it would require many multiple books to chronicle...

In 1984, I was just 13 and way too young to know about a man called Yash Chopra. Having been brought up on just three films – The Sound of Music, My...

So the fiery and often unpredictable ‘didi’ of Indian politics, Mamata Banerjee is all set to do what many felt was inevitable – withdraw her support...

The Indian government is becoming a joke by the day! Now The Economist, has written about the irrelevance of Rahul Gandhi in an article asking,...

First it was Afghanistan, then Iraq, after that it was Libya and now Syria! The targets of US intervention in the civil war of the Middle East are...

The recent riots in Assam, and now its retaliation in Indian metros, which largely got instigated through hate SMSes that went viral all across,...

Dear Muslim brother, When I read about the riots in Assam, I was slightly perplexed. Why now? And then I was bewildered when riots broke out in...

We are probably among those few developing countries that are pegged to be the next superpowers but which still do not have any idea of their...

I had written this after the Virginia Tech shootout and I write again – capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately...

Indian prisons are still more like Nazi-era concentration camps than being places for correcting the guilty. With over three lakh prisoners packed...

It doesn’t require the world to point out that Manmohan Singh is a puppet prime minister! The question actually is, who is the ‘real’ prime minister?...

I was watching a movie in the first floor of our house that fateful afternoon of ‘94 when that call came and changed our lives forever. It was my...