Cambridge, Wordsworth’s city of ‘turrets and pinnacles in answering files’, of scholars and spires and cobbled miles, of academic dreams and drinking...

Immigrants, go home!’ the tabloids scream on any given day. And you can’t have been in the UK for a while, if you haven’t had it screamed at you by a...

When a young Indian woman is brutally gang-raped on a bus, travelling a route I often did when I lived in Delhi 17 years ago, I find it hard to stay...

April 8 2001 27 years old (feel at least 100), 6st 10 (fashionably waif-like, but  so what) , alcohol units 0 (might hit the bottle yet), husband...

The name’s Bland, James Bland, UK’s Daily Mail screamed seven years ago when Daniel Craig was picked to be Pierce Brosnan’s successor. 007 aficionados...

I have special memories of the Durga pujas in Kolkata, the city of my youth. The beauty and bustle are still vivid, as if it was just yesterday. At...

Great Britain is a betting nation. Horses, dogs, reality shows, pregnant royals and the Man Booker prize for literature – it’s all fair game. Betting...

The day our resident Batman fanatic had been waiting for dawned bright and breezy. My four year old son leaped out of bed because today was the day we...

The BBC has a new comedy, Citizen Khan, about an Asian Muslim family living in Birmingham. A few episodes old, it has already generated over 700...

London 2012 is over, with all the glitz, glory and heartbreak that the Olympics bring. And there was heartbreak and humiliation aplenty for India. As...