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Mukhtasar 5 Jun 2012 | 11:52 pm
My tryst with that liltingly beautiful language known as Urdu began years ago, as a response to a challenge that was never proffered. And the redemption has been wholesome, in full measure but not sub...
Lions for Lambs-2 30 Aug 2011 | 05:03 pm
Many of my friends and acquaintances have expressed a plethora of emotions ranging from disagreement to ambivalence to bewilderment at my stance on the Jan Lokpal Bill. The one common denominator, how...
Lions for Lambs 28 Aug 2011 | 06:36 am
India has had its share of infamous days-15 Aug 1947 and its consequent bloodbath, the 1962 defeat against China, the imposition of the Emergency, Operation Bluestar, the demolition of our secular cha...
Akhtar 23 Jul 2011 | 04:51 pm
A long, long time ago, someone told me to try my hand at poetry. But considerate as I am, I deigned it best not to make the frugal few who endure my prose suffer my attempts at poetry too! Very recen...
Luna Inter Minores 19 Jul 2011 | 06:56 pm
I have had the privilege of being taught by a score of stalwarts in my sojourns across the length and breadth of my country. I remember many of them and try to remember some of the things they taught ...
Aadhaar 13 Jul 2011 | 04:49 am
She is but a little girl, for the moment pretending to be a woman. She is pretty, the wheatish complexion of her oval face framed in a cascade of raven-dark tresses. She wears a white shirt with littl...
Random 7 Jul 2011 | 05:19 am
Let’s try a rhetorical question-what is more random, the hapless ranting of a battered heart or the methodical, mannered machinations of an administration? Surprisingly, it would seem that the latter ...
Breathless 21 Jun 2011 | 03:36 am
The air kicked out of your gut, your heart skipping its beats altogether, your very being gasping for what is to follow next. Breathless. Not because you are tired or fatigued or beat. But because p...
Meditations 19 Dec 2010 | 11:08 pm
“I have taken myself out of the complexities, or maybe I have taken the complexities out of myself” That was Marcus Aurelius, the grand old Roman, speaking through his “Meditations”. It is a sentimen...
The Moon for Sixpence 2 Oct 2010 | 06:49 am
This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 15; the fifteenth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and sta...
