The other day when I removed the rubber and unrolled The Times of India, the front page was not that of The Times of India…it was an advertisement! Not just a part of the page but the entire front page. The same has happened with the Hindustan Times...

I received a call from a scientist friend in Port Blair early November this year. As soon as I picked up my phone, he asked me a question he had asked me dozens of times during the past three years: “When do I see you here?” As I maintained my...

Right from the terror attack on Mumbai, one thing that has been intriguing is the way in which Pakistan has flip-flopped on various issues: First things first, their foreign minister, Qureshi, was in Chandigarh at the time of the attack. He said the...

(In a lighter vein!) What a way to bid farewell to Bush?! I mean,…with a pair of shoes? No other pair of shoes in the world would have drawn so much of attention from the media and the world at large as the ones that were hurled at Bush by an Iraqi...

(In a lighter vein!) Bush went all the way to Iraq to bid goodbye to the US army personnel deployed there but instead returned with the honourable title of “Dog” and a gift of the choicest pair of size 10 Iraqi shoes air delivered to him by...

After the Mumbai terror attacks on November 26, the only captured terrorist, Ajmal Kasab, has confessed to being a Pakistani from Faridkot. He has confessed to training in Pakistan, he has given details of his accomplices. In fact, these have been...

(In a lighter vein!) I am incorrigible! I am sorry…but I am a compulsive humourist looking for humour at every nook and corner of every situation for an opportunity... Even when I spent nearly a week in Max Hospital tending to my father who was...

Last Saturday, my father had a brain stroke. His first symptoms showed giddiness. I shunted from one hospital to another unable to make out what afflicted my father. The first hospital wanted to know if he had a history of blood pressure or diabetis....

With her hat trick in Delhi Asssembly polls, Sheila Dikshit has taken the Indian National Congress to a new high. The results came as an absolute shocker…not only to the Bharatiya Janata Party but also to our political pundits who were making all...

Security personnel are people who stake their lives to save our lives. So, the least we can do is to provide them the best of equipment and gear to protect themselves while they protect us. What did we find during the Mumbai terror attacks? That...