Have you ever considered how much of our lives is determined by rules? I don’t mean the rule of law. I’m talking of the more subtle ones that influence how we speak as well as those that we ins...
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Who doesn’t like a little public recognition or to be the centre of attention? I certainly do. To be honest, it makes my old heart smile! But there can also be occasi...
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I’ve never known Pertie to get so excited. Normally, he’s a placid, laid-back sort of chap. Even when the waiter at the Gymkhana Club poured chicken curry into his ...
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For a politician Atal Bihari Vajpayee had a most engaging smile. It seemed to cover his entire face and, at the same time, made his eyes twinkle. That gave him an appea...
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“I say”, began Pertie, with the air of someone who has an important question to ask, “How should television interviewers address their guests? Our lot do so in a ...
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The updating of the National Register of Citizens in Assam has landed us in a frightful mess and the fact it’s happened under Supreme Court supervision doesn’t make...
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Bad or outdated rules and laws should be allowed to fall into disuse or, better still, repealed. That would be the sensible thing to do. Alas, we have an example of a b...
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It’s easy to blame WhatsApp for the spate of lynchings that have occurred across the country. Some in government do and, perhaps, several outside it. But WhatsApp is ...
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In the 1980s, when I started out in journalism, there was a simple but appealing question that held most of us in thrall: ‘Why are the millions of good things that ro...
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It seems we’re more alike than we realize. Reading Bill Clinton’s new book ‘The President is Missing’, I stumbled upon the following sentences which speak as el...
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