Shoot First, Mumble Later

There are many absurdities that have piled up in the years since the Ayodhya cases began to be heard decades ago, so it is hardly surprising...

The opening show of Complicite’s A Disappearing Number , based on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, brought plenty of North Bombay celebs to ...

My Yahoo! column on free enterprise and food security can be read here . The image is of a 1944 drawing from Chittaprosad's Famine serie...

A month ago, I posted about my favourite budget airline Indigo's new look. I wrote about the short bobs all the flight attendants were ...

About two years ago, we began switching all our bulbs to CFL. Everytime a bulb popped, we'd replace it with one considered more environm...

Around August 15, I made a complaint saying certain channels like CNN and BBC were no longer playing on my Tata Sky connection. I was told t...

My column on the food crisis, up today on Yahoo! India, can be read here .

Went to Bangalore for a day. Flew Spice Jet, which was a mistake. I was told of a fifteen minute delay at check-in; we were cooped up in a b...

It's been amusing these past years to read continually of 'suprise' or 'unannounced' visits to Afghanistan and Iraq by f...

I saw a ridiculous film called The Expendables last evening. Such movies are saved, if they're saved at all, by the quality of the acti...