I had no idea how seriously people can listen to convocation speeches. In my time at Doon School, I paid little attention to the chief guests’ Founders Day addresses....
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It’s odd how chance encounters can start a train of thought and help you realize things you had not earlier fully appreciated. I guess that’s part of the inexplicab...
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As concern about, if not fear of, Omicron grows with each passing day, should the government immediately authorise boosters for vulnerable sections of the population? T...
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Should the army apologise for killing 13 innocent fellow-citizens in Nagaland? It’s a simple and blunt question but it’s also a pertinent one. No matter what the ba...
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I imagine many of you have heard of Jack and Jill. If you remember, they climbed up the hill, Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after. It used to seem like an innoc...
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When I think of what’s been done to Munawar Faruqui I want to hang my head in shame. I feel embarrassed and India has been diminished. It’s nothing short of persecu...
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In a serendipitous coincidence Shashi Tharoor and Ban Ki-moon have recently published books with accounts of their 2006 battle to become Secretary-General of the United...
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Last Saturday, at a rally in Azamgarh, the Home Minister asked the gathering: “Does anyone feel Jinnah is great?” Then, without a pause, he answered his own questio...
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Have you ever chosen to read a book for one specific reason only to find you end up admiring it for quite another? It happened to me earlier this month when I chose a C...
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Perhaps because it’s the only language I know properly I’m fascinated by the idiosynscrasies of English. Its pronunciation is often inexplicable, its spelling mysti...
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