Cross Connections

It is such judgements that should make us have faith in the judiciary. Not only has it upheld secularism in Constitutional terms, it ha...

Is she dead? Injured? Her limbs blown off? I will never know. I knew her only as a pseudonym. She often spoke about training for the ...

Crossing over. Pic; India Today What has made 250 Pakistani Hindus want to seek asylum in India? The obvious answer is that the communit...

Do not expect the UID (Unique Identity) scheme to track absconders and the corrupt. It will see to it that the backward remain where they ...

It’s barely been two days since Nidhi Gupta and her two kids died. Her father, Bimal Jalan, has mentioned harassment by her in-laws but has ...

Irony could not get more amusing. Today is Eid al-adha . Pricey animals are just another means to flash money. Muslims sacrifice a goat (or ...

There is every reason to respect a community that contributes to society. However, blind belief in the whole community’s abilities and unque...

Emraan Hashmi has been denied a flat in Pali Hill because he is a Muslim. We have gone through this before, and I mean before the Shabana Az...

'Drop in when you drop dead' was the line at the Undertaker’s outlet on my regular route. I imagined stone cold corpses walk in for ...

This is what has been appearing in the local trains. A picture with an Aamir Khan-lookalike as portrayed in the film Ghajini - muscular bod...

Set the poll rolling : India's Muslims by Farzana Versey The News International, May 20, 2009 My cellphone and Inbox are filled with c...

The guy who had probably discovered a bit about V. Prabhakaran a couple of years ago was giving us the news. He sounded jubilant. “We are th...

Each Friday night after work, Bubbal Singh would fire up his outdoor grill and cook a tandoori chicken and some meat kebabs. But, all of Bu...

Everytime I watched him, the gleam in his eye, that deadpan tone in voice, and the way his hands almost seemed to grab the desk, I could sen...

While I am completely besotted by 'my area', the stretch between Chowpatty and Marine Drive is great fun. I was at the Catholi...

Returned home late last night. Found a box of chocolates. The box itself was a beauty in burgundy; the chocolates shaped like fish that are ...