Barbara Cartland lives on in a Ghaziabad courtroom

Ok, let’s be clear about this. I know nothing about Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj’s murders beyond the absolute basics. Fourteen-year-old Continue reading →

Know The Stories

I’ve been thinking of my grandmother a lot this past week. She was, among other things, a fabulous storyteller. My Continue reading →

Voice activated

What on earth is going in India? First, someone called up the country’s attorney general pretending to be Sonia Gandhi. Continue reading →

American racist trolls and Indians: same to same?

Nina Davuluri, an American woman of Indian origin has won Miss America and that too after performing a Bollywood dance Continue reading →

40 minutes of Outrage, courtesy Bachi Karkaria

I actually have three art posts that I want to write, but that’s going to have to wait. Because I Continue reading →

The wondrous double life of Bhaskar Rao

IGP, ISD, Bhaskar Rao, an IPS officer of 1990 batch, has been corresponding and answering to his official mails since Continue reading →

Arrested Development

A short while ago, the only juvenile accused in the Delhi gang rape from December last year was found guilty. Continue reading →

The hot mess that is journalism

Early-ish this morning, Twitter informed me that while I’d been frothing at the mouth about how awful a film Jobs is, a Continue reading →