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- Archives: June 2010
- Modi Vis-a-Vis MEA
At last the dust has settled, of course after some tough talks by our MEA officials to their counter parts...
- Security Is A Comedy In India
The death of 140 odd passengers of a Mumbai bound train early Friday made us revisit the question all over...
- Photo Essay: Courtland Gallery, 2nd Floor
A photo essay on the exhibits on the 2nd floor of the Courtland Gallery, one of the best small museums in London
- What To Do When A Friend 'Comes Out'
Each one is a sweet memory, a verbal token that a friend trusted me and shared something deeply personal.
- Photo Essay: Courtland Gallery’s Reception
The reception at Courtland Gallery, one of the best small museums in London
- Chaotic Bangalore Roads, Jackass Drivers, Inept Governments
Who in their right minds digs up roads just when the monsoon season starts?
- Photo Essay: Courtland Gallery, the Gambier Parry Gallery 1/3
The Gambier Parry Gallery at the Courtland Gallery, 1/3 photo essay
- Hindustan bole to Youngistan
What does todays India signifies with its young population. How they can influence the social, ecoanomic and political environment of India
- Photo Essay: Courtland Gallery, the Gambier Parry Collection, Ivories Display 2/3
The second of three photo essays on the Gambier Parry Collection of Ivories at the Courtland Gallery
- Poetry: The Messenger of Smiles
One day while walking On the golden sands of a beach, I met a frail old man Whose head was shaped like a peach.
- Fiction: Love Child
It is only once in a lifetime that you hear of such perversity that your gut wrenches and the earth splits open right under your
- The World Of Straight & Gay-Friendly
Should homosexuality be a deal-breaker in a straight relationship?
- Photo Essay: Courtland Gallery, the Gambier Parry Collection, Islamic Metalwork 3/3
The final photo essay on the Gambier Parry Collection, the Islamic Metalwork collection.
- Travel Review: Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Plantation
There were few iconic figures in the mid-nineteenth century in post-Revolutionary America quite like General Andrew Jackson.
- Bank Risks - Show Me The Money And Who Owns It
Bank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate governance structure of each bank.
- Of Desis, Settlers and Flotillas in Israel
Even if the success rate is high, time is against those Israelis who believe that might is right and they will always get their way.
- Haiti
Poems and Drawings on Haiti
- Garden Talk
Our garden has suffered a lot of neglect in recent months.
- Book Review: Heartbreaks and Dreams - Yesterday Once More
While stories about IIT abound on bookshelves today, Heartbreaks and Dreams is the sole representative of the female perspective
- Maturity Is An Age Thing
You can put a kid on the fast track but you can't make him an adult before his time.
- International Violence against Women Act Faces Stiff Opposition From Unexpected Quarter
Funding of 1 Billion dollars under I-VAWA will lead to gross Civil Liberties Violations.
- The BJP's Revivalism
The BJP is one party which has the potential, the gumption and the foresight to lead the country from the front.
- Greek Synod Condemns Mass in Modern Greek
In this day and age, there are still people who complain about translations of religious texts.
- Oh Bhopal!
Bhopal lost something on that night,and nothing but time will heal those wounds.
- Fiction: The Park
A park separates them.
- Sensibility in Senseless Traffic
Among impatient drivers, unruly drivers, rogue drivers and rash drivers, one could come across sensible drivers too.
- Book Review: Dreams in Prussian Blue by Paritosh Uttam
An unequal relationship to pursue the dreams of one man...
- Haiti, Poems and Drawings
Haiti - Poems and Drawings
- Right to Information, State Accountability, and Wikileaks
There is natural tension between the State and the public on the question of transparency. Authoritarian states by definition limit access to information.
- Teaching Work & Wealth Values to Children
I'm teaching my kids about wealth and investments. What are you guys doing with your kids?
- Movie Review: Raavanan - Read Amar Chitra Katha Instead
Have we become pathological remixers?
- Movie Review: Raavan – Completely Devoid of Soul
It’s too simple a story which runs on a single track, at the same pace towards an ending which we are all too familiar with.
- Photo Essay: The Herb Garden
A photo essay on a herb garden made by the Worshipful Company of Barbers in London
- An Overdose of Saccharine
On Father's Day, I try to describe my father to you.
- Photo Essay: The Mouse Ran Up The Clock In The Horological Museum
A Horological Museum in London
- Movie Review: Raavan
A sensuous overload of water everywhere, but not a drop to relish
- A Feline Obsession
Do you realize what a breakthrough it is? Men can now brag about their female and feline followers. Dahling would you terribly mind having my
- Poem: Echoes of Existence
There lives an echo on the streets Where she once travelled and breathed
- Pleading "Not Guilty"
I often joke that the only trips I take are the Guilt Trips that the states of being a mother, daughter, wife, and friend induce.
- Book Launch: Angel of Death - The Story of Smallpox
A Photo Essay on a book launch and other bits and bobs at the Wellcome Centre, London
- Bhopal : A Gas Tragedy
I always thought for 2010 the biggest national shame would be the Commonwealth Games, but was proven wrong
- The Kulfiwallah
The Kulfi tastes slightly salty, creamy and milky cold with bits of cardamom.
- Delusional in Afghanistan
The quagmire in Afghanistan, deepened by the decision to commit 30,000 more soldiers by President Obama is anything but farce.
- Poetry: Rain
Silk Screen Print and Poem from A Slow Train to Gwalior
- The Snooze Button
If you are like my hubs, you will not hear the alarm even if the volume of the chirping has reached deafening proportions.
- Fiction: The Morning After
Survival first is the metropolitan mantra.
- The FIFA World Cup 2010 - A Sleeping Pill Called Jabulani?
Up next - shock & draw.
- Cane & Disable
Corporal punishment reinforces violence and discourages independent thought
- Time Management - A Paradigm Shift
How should we use our time effectively?
- The Feminist Hangover
Who’s going to rescue the world now that Superwoman has ousted Superman and killed the collaboration?
- FIFA World Cup 2010: Shock & Draw
Some had progressed, some had already booked their flights back home, but the fates of most were undecided as on 21st June.
- A Talkative Judge
Should a judge use his personal blog to attack the judiciary?
- FIFA World Cup 2010: The Threshold
The World Cup might have come to Africa but Africa, it seems, failed to come to the World Cup.
- Poetry: East London
East London - A Poem
- The Bhopal Gas Tragedy - All The Political Discussions
Or will it all die down when some other news takes it place ?
- Book Review: Open Government
Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
- parvana chand
ish'q bhee tu, aashiq bhee tu / pyar bhee tu, pari bhee tu
- Rhetoric?
More than 77% of our country's population lives on less than 20 Rs per day. This is not any...
- Travel Review: Trip to Saladin's Citadel in Cairo
Saladin's Citadel is a structure that bears great importance to the history of Cairo.
- An Evening With Aurangzeb
What drives us to be so judgemental and conclusive without knowing the facts?
- Poetry: Head and Heart
from her, herd, hard, heart to her
- That Bitter Sweet Feeling
Not my home, but lot of memories there
- Have a Sweet After-life, Viveka!
A very Gay Goodbye to a "courageous" ex-model
- Diesel Pricing Decontrol - Will Diesel Car Demand Decrease?
The Government says it is committed to decontrol price of diesel
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