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Could India Have Saved Sarabjit Singh? How?
Yes, I believe India could have saved Sarabjit’s life. India could have brought Sarabjit home before his brutal Pakistani gaolers cracked his skull and killed him. Whether India admits it or not,...
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A Conversation With Sonal Shah, Founder Of Koonik
My friend Sonal Shah, formerly a banker and marketing professional who worked for Kotak Mahindra Bank, was bitten by the start-up bug a couple of years ago. Turning entrepreneur, Sonal started Koonik,...
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A Few Thoughts On The Phaneesh Murthy Matter
“Phaneesh Murthy has done it again!”“How can a man be so stupid? ” “How on earth did he become CEO of a company after having been in trouble once?” All of these are legitimate questions, but some basic...
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Supriya Sobti Talks To Winnowed About Ragasthan
My friend Supriya Sobti, a fellow alumnus of the London School of Economics and a freelance journalist who has in the past worked for International television and radio networks including Al Jazeera...
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Tipu Sultan's Rockets
Tipu Sultan may or may not have been a bigot, but he was the only Indian ruler to put up any serious opposition to British rule in India. Also, Tipu's rocket battalions were the first of their kind in...
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A Conversation With Thilini Kahandawaarachchi
Ms.Thilini Kahandawaarachchi, a Sri Lankan national, spent 5 years at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (my own alma mater) and graduated with a B.A. LL.B. Honours degree in 2007....
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Book Review: “I’m Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot”, by Lalita Iyer
Lalita Iyer’s I’m Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot (IPNTI) is exactly the sort of book I would normally not read, but then, one does strange things when one’s expecting to become a father for...
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Mark Twain’s Red Injun Joe
Recently I happened to re-read Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was struck by Twain’s treatment of Red Injun Joe. I had always thought of Twain as a humanist, one who had sympathy for enslaved...
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Book Review: Bosses of the Wild – Lessons From The Corporate Jungle, by...
Human beings are animals, albeit social ones. Dig a little into any of us and you will find animal traits. Even as human beings evolved from being hunter gathers to farming to industrial workers, the...
View ArticleShort Story: Flight To Dreamland
As the pilot announced the descent into Heathrow, Benny wished he had opted for the much cheaper Ukranian Airways rather than expensive British Airways. The food had been unappetising and the...
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Book Review: 10 Judgements That Changed India, by Zia Mody
Zia Mody is one of the most well-known corporate lawyers in India. She is in Business Today’sHall of Fame as one of India’s most powerful businesswomen. What is less well-known is that before donning...
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Book Review: The Aryavarta Chronicles, Book 2: Kaurava by Krishna Udayasankar
Just over a year ago, when I finished reading Govinda, the first book from Krishna Udayasankar’s Aryavarta Chronicles, I knew that I would not be able to resist the rest of the Chronicles. A few days...
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Book Review: The Spy Who Lost Her Head by Jane De Suza
What happens when a Jane Austenesque village damsel (albeit garishly dressed by Victorian or modern day standards) comes to Mumbai in the hope of landing herself a husband, but instead ends up holding...
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Book Review: Where The Rainbow Ends by Anurag Anand
Anurag Anand, author of exciting books such as the Legend of Amrapali and Of Tattoos and Taboos! has come up with yet another good un. Anand’s third novel, Where The Rainbow Ends, combines good story...
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Book Review: The Blood Telegram – India’s Secret War in East Pakistan, by...
The 1971 Bangladesh War which led to an independent Bangladesh was post-independence India’s finest hour. Coinciding with the Vietnam War, arguably America’s worst decade since the Second World War,...
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Notes from the Vasai Virar Mayor’s Marathon 2013
It’s been a little over two weeks since I ran the Vasai Virar Mayor’s Marathon 2013 (VVMM). Three of my toe nails are still bluish-black (I think I will lose them) and my hopes of running a sub-five...
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A Conversation With Sayed Ahmed Raza, My Friend From Bangladesh
My friend Sayed Ahmed Raza is a founding partner at Ahmed & Farooq LP, a leading law firm in Bangladesh. Raza, as we called him at the National Law School of India University, was a couple of years...
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Book Review: The Escape Artist: A Gibraltarian Novel, by M. G. Sanchez
M. G. Sanchez’s writing harks back to an era when writers (I am reminded of Thomas Hardy) wrote stories about real people who could have existed, for people who had the time, patience and leisure to...
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The Teacher From Kerala Who Became A Project Manager At NASA
Dr. Philip Varghese, an India born scientist who once taught Physics at the Fatima Mata National College in Kollam, Kerala, worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab for close to a quarter century, during...
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Book Review: Paths To Peace – Religion, Ethics and Tolerance in a Globalizing...
I normally don’t read books on spirituality or morality or suchlike values. However, I made an exception in the case of Dirk Collier’s Paths To Peace – Religion, Ethics and Tolerance in a Globalizing...
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