Thirty letters in my name

Found this great video thanks to a friend on Facebook: There is a wonderful Friedreich Hayek quote at the end: "The curious task of eco...

It’s late October already. The air outside is cold and crisp, and fallen leaves, the currency of the season, are everywhere; the woods are a...

1. My friends know well that I do not drink much. In fact, I know nothing of the nuances: which glass suits which wine, the subtle differenc...

They say you are either a morning or a night person. I am certainly the latter: it is a pity to miss the freshness of dawn, but it seems an ...

My Name is Khan (MNIK) is one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year. The embarrassing sentimentality of its scenes, which promote a chees...

For me, the most delightful moment in the new movie Ishqiya is the scene that goes with the melodious Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji – crudely “The...

From FT : Every so often, you would see one waiting on a metro platform. When the train pulled up, the dog would step in, scramble up to lie...

I've always wondered what Indian cuisine was like before the 16th century. A slew of now indispensable grains, nuts, vegetables, fruits,...

The first story of Ten Little Indians –a collection of Sherman Alexie ’s stories – is about Corliss, a spunky, independent college-going Sp...

New England, as many of you may know, is famous for fall colors. When I moved to Amherst, Massachusetts in August last year, I hadn't gi...

In The Ayatollah Begs to Differ , the author Hooman Majd visits Qom , the religious center for Shia learning. He tries to talk to the Gran...

Painting is not my thing. But yesterday, at the museum dedicated to the famous American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)...

(Picture of roadside book stall in Mexico City, taken during my trip last December.) Among magazines for the lascivious eye -- with pictures...

From Suketu Mehta's Maximum City:Bombay Lost and Found : Shiv Sena 's notions of what is culturally acceptable in India show a dist...

For those who may not know, this is batting maestro Brian Lara teaching the President how to hit a good front-foot cover drive. But from th...

A Spanish evangelist, Fray Domingo de Santo Tomas , traveling in Peru circa 1560 finds out what being Christian means to the Indians of Per...

VS Naipaul explains why in his brilliant essay East Indian* : …this word Indian has been abused as no other word in the language; almost eve...

Generally, India has never been very distant, no matter where I've traveled. It isn't hard to find Indians and, besides, there is al...

By now, most of you would have seen this. As Falstaff says, reality can sometimes outdo fiction. What was President Bush's response? Th...