Once a preferred global hot-spot for higher studies, India is now losing sheen. Not only are foreign students staying away, Indians too are opting to...

There is a reason Britishers chomped their way up India’s mountains and lived there in summers. It is time to overlook their excesses and enjoy our...

There is a definite agenda at play. And boy, do we have imagination running amok now, most of it dark, clandestinely mischievous and overtly...

We are mindlessly flirting with communal madness. We have been for a while now and may soon see the deadly fallout, as Skowrers attempt to score a win

I was casually watching TV last week and chanced upon a documentary series being anchored by Barack Obama. Can any of our Indian leaders counter this?

There are literal tigers on our city roads today, prancing around and flouting traffic rules. They had hibernated for a while, but are back with a...

The Cyclops is a tragic figure in Homer’s epic ‘The Odyssey’, who is blinded by the protagonist, Odysseus. Is this classic being replicated in my...

This is not the spot that will offer refuge, strategic or circumstantial. It can only offer a breather. But even that can be a life-saver now, as will...

Eons after their passing, dinosaurs are back. I am not talking of fuel prices, but the sagacity of our polity today and some very blasé death-knell...

The above header is a classic Indian rebuke, one that is intrinsic to Indians and oft inflames guttural sensibilities. It is hurtful, sure, yet it...

The world has always been an evil place, with the cockamamie devil playing a game of hide-and-seek with us humans. Sadly, history is again repeating...

This is mock-literature and I shall explain. I will also mention ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, a classic write-up from literary history. For today, we...