What’s in a name? Unless I’m terribly mistaken, this was the title of a popular strip cartoon in my teens. It would appear in the sunday papers which I eagerly anti...
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It was past five in the evening on Diwali when my landline started ringing. Though bright outside you could sense dusk was not far away. This is the twilight time when,...
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Mine is an unusual column this week. I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. My intention is to re-introduce someone you know as an occasional columnist â...
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I used to think of dengue as a funny-sounding, weirdly-spelt and peculiarly-pronounced disease. Several people I know have had it and I was aware of the fact that it’...
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I dare say Navjot Singh Sidhu attracts controversy. He certainly seems to revel in it. Just as the brouhaha over his embracing the Pakistani Army Chief at Imran Khan’...
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Could you have imagined sex workers can be intelligently, seriously and usefully compared to business leaders and, when they are, might even come out better? Most of yo...
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To be honest, I don’t like crossing roads. I’m always apprehensive when I have to. Indeed, I try to do so only at zebra or pelican crossings. Even then I make a poi...
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There’s no doubt India-Pakistan relations are accident-prone and when they go into a tailspin they usually raise disturbing questions rather than provide meaningful a...
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Do we, as citizens of a democracy, have the right to be fully informed of the health of those who govern us as well as the amount spent by the exchequer on their treatm...
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Yesterday was ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis that sparked off. A decade later one of the most talked about plays in London is ...
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