As the country reels under the sheer number of cases of child sexual abuse and brutal sexual attacks on little children, it bears repeating that ...
11:35 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Every Union home minister of the country has had to live literally in the shadow of the first occupant of the post. In the stairway ...
12:29 AM, Feb 22, 2013
The one thing that's common between the present Indian and Pakistani home ministers is that they're both wannabes who shoot off their mouths at the ...
10:45 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Rehman Malik, interior minister of Pakistan, landed in Delhi, came out of the airport, folded his hands to do a namaste and announced he was ...
12:57 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Last night I was reading an article on victims of child labour and child abuse. I went to sleep with a very disturbed mind. I ...
11:49 PM, Nov 09, 2012
'Losing Thilakan is like losing someone in family.' The tribute paid a by a fan on twitter couldn't have been better expressed. Malayalam ...
11:20 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi has been drawing the crowds right through her US trip. It's the pro-democracy activist and Nobel laureate's first trip to the ...
04:41 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Every time I walk past the shop selling household items in a posh South Delhi market, I feel a twinge of guilt. This guilt tinged ...
10:23 PM, Sep 01, 2012
No it's not the usual self-gratifying introspection about where my country is headed, not a futile fury over my prime minister's I- day speech which ...
06:29 PM, Aug 15, 2012
"Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this world's ...
10:20 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Once upon a time, till not very long ago, we used to have the Monsoons. Now, barring coastal areas, in most cities across Upper India, ...
03:27 PM, Jul 02, 2012
In 2006, after having invested all our life's savings and taking a huge home loan, we finally had a beautiful house in Mumbai. Our parents ...
12:18 PM, Jun 18, 2012
I noticed that in my last blog (the kind comments on which are greatly appreciated) on the summers of my childhood spent immersed in books ...
04:04 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Summer vacations are a very complicated time for parents nowadays. Should one send one's daughter to a Vedic Maths class? Is one's son old enough ...
12:03 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Child sexual abuse is a grave matter. Being a parent myself, I find that my one mission in life is to save my child from ...
01:44 PM, May 23, 2012
The right to information, the right to work, the right to education, the right to food and now the right to pension. Watching Sagarika Ghose's ...
08:50 AM, May 10, 2012
Last Sunday started in a rather unusual way. Aamir Khan, in his show Satyamev Jayate, exposed a grim reality of the world's largest democracy. His ...
10:00 AM, May 08, 2012
It's vacation time and my daughter's looking out for kids to play with and in the process throwing up a lot of extreme revelations. One ...
10:57 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Finally, I have my MP3 player. Buying an MP3 player is a no big deal, but it becomes when you look out for the best ...
03:27 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Maya Raj is out. Samajwadi Party has won the state elections with phenomenal numbers. Rahul Gandhi's efforts reaped no results. With an epic win in ...
12:59 PM, Mar 14, 2012
