I always look out of the window when the plane is landing. That’s partly because I’m scared but also because I’m anxious to see where I’m headed. However the half empty Swissair flight to...
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“Inko hamari bimari kahanse lag gaee?” Pritam asked as he cut my hair.

Pritam is the head barber at the Taj Mahal Hotel and over the years I have come to respect his incisive comments...
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I suppose at heart we are all sceptics. How often is it that a friend praises his or her latest possession and in response your eyes gloss over with polite disbelief? The more fulsome they are th...
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“Oh dear” she said as she collapsed on the sofa grateful to get out of the summer heat. Premila had just returned from shopping and looked particularly pooped.

“What’s happened...
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“Can I ask you a question, Mr. Thapar?” the young girl said as she approached me. She was smiling and I could hardly refuse. I stopped and waited.

“I read a lot of the stuff you w...
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It’s disconcerting how, like a child’s kaleidoscope, one’s memory can sometimes flood the brain with pictures from the past. Small disjointed vignettes, long rambling sequences, poignant mom...
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I suppose you could say he was clean looking but that would be an inadequate description. When he first walked into my office I was also struck by his confidence and his affability. It’s not ea...
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I had no idea it could be so traumatic to leave India. One usually looks forward to it. With eager anticipation you count the days. Going abroad, after all, is fun. But these days the hurtful p...
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“What’s a man like you doing at an event like this?”

I turned to find myself being addressed by a young lady in her mid-twenties. Dressed in black, with short hair and long heels s...
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There are many who will not like what I have to say. That’s their prerogative. I respect their right to differ just as I trust they will uphold my right to express myself.

Mr. Vajpaye...
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