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Book Review: Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
Thapa could skim pebbles on any water surface and if there existed an Olympic medal for such a sport, he would have won it. After all, he hailed from a very poor part of Nepal where rocks and pebbles...
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Learning Hindi With Chetan Bhagat
I’ve been trying to learn Hindi ever since my late teens. I learnt some Hindi at school, but a small dusty town down South is not the best place to learn the most widely spoken Indian language. As far...
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Book Review: Red Sorghum, by Mo Yan
Ever since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, I’ve been planning to read Red Sorghum, one of his most famous works set in the time of the Japanese occupation and the Second World War....
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Book Review: Making India Awesome, by Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat’s latest offering Making India Awesome is a work of non-fiction, a bunch of essays addressed to Indians who care and want to make a difference. Bhagat tells us that 80% of Indians don’t...
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Book Review: Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, which came out in the early 1950s, has been on my reading list for over a decade, but because Chaudhuri was literally, for me, an unknown...
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Book Review: Three by Krishna Udayasankar
Having reviewed Krishna Udayasankar’s Aryavarta Chronicles, a trilogy based on the Mahabharata, I was very keen to read Three, Udayasankar’s latest literary offering. I was not disappointed. Three is...
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Book Review: Magic in the Mountain, by Nimi Kurian
It’s a long while since I read a book essentially meant for children. A children’s book need not be about children, but Magic in the Mountain is, which would normally make it all the more unsuitable...
View ArticleShort Story: A Tale Of Two Speeches
My mom gave me an encouraging smile as I wriggled my leg under the table. I wasn’t nervous, not in the least. Rather, I felt infinitely superior to the lesser beings who were all around me, some of...
View ArticleShort Story: The Exit
‘Could you please give me another 30 mins?’ Radha asked her with exquisite politeness. Pratiksha frowned with annoyance, and muttered ‘okay’. As if she had a choice. ‘You have the forms I sent you,...
View ArticleShort Story: A Brief Encounter at the Lower Parel Peninsula Junction
Mumbai is notorious for its traffic jams and ever since I moved to this vibrant city six months ago, I’ve spent more time waiting at traffic signals than anywhere else outdoors. Today morning, on the...
View ArticleShort Story: WTF
‘wtf”, Ashok’s text message read and my heart sank.‘listen there are others like you. i was only trying to help them,’ I texted back. However, it was too late, because when I gathered the courage to...
View ArticleShort Story: 10 Most Influential Under 35
The television was a mite too loud, Sangeeta thought and she reached for the remote control, which was not within easy reach. Sachin saw her reach out and warned, ‘don’t change the channel.’‘I won’t....
View ArticleWho’s helping the Taliban?
The Taliban are fanatic Sunnis and one wouldn't expect Shia Iran to help them. There are reports that Iran is actually doing just that, but that's Breitbart news, which is not very credible. What is...
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Corrupt Zuma Survives
South African President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote in parliament yesterday. Everybody knows that Zuma is corrupt, yet he survives. He is even popular in SA. In that, he is very similar to...
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Is Chloe Ayling Lying?
British glamour model Chloe Ayling claimed to have been abducted and held hostage for six days after being lured to Milan for a bogus photo shoot by a gang who intended to auction her as a sex slave....
View ArticleGuam's Governor backs Donald Trump's fiery rhetoric
The Governor of Guam, the US territory threatened with attack by North Korea, has backed Donald Trump's fiery rhetoric toward the nuclear-armed nation, saying that a President who whole-heartedly...
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Pakistan's Mother Teresa Dies
Dr Ruth Pfau, a German doctor popularly known as Pakistan's 'Mother Teresa', died on Thursday at a private hospital in Karachi. She was 87.Dr. Pfau had dedicated her life to eradicate leprosy in...
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Never again, will we fight your wars for you, Imran tells the US
Imran Khan has declared that if ever he becomes the ruler of Pakistan, he will ensure that Pakistan does not fight USA's wars. Or allow itself to be used as a condom and thrown away when not needed....
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Russia and USA - A New Cold War?
The United States on Thursday ordered Russia to close down its consulate in San Francisco and two diplomatic annexes, in New York and Washington, as retaliation for Russia’s recent order for the...
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More US troops for Afghanistan
A day after disclosing that the US had 11,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, instead of 8,600 as was widely believed, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis signed orders for deployment of new troops in Afghanistan...
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