Cross Connections

One did not realise this was about competition, that too of the superficial kind. The celebrated anchor moving on to the sterilisation de...

A few months ago, somebody sent me a YouTube link to "the woman they say George Clooney is getting married to". Amal Alamuddin w...

What happens when a Bollywood actor decides to speak out against objectification? The reactions are simplistic and extreme. The Times o...

Why should anybody get defensive about love? There are different manifestations of it, and differing ways to express it. The need to b...

Okay. Get angry. How dare our ‘public servants’ behave like feudals. Why should the taxpayer’s money be wasted on giving them the red car...

Fine dining, by definition, is exclusive. Can a foreigner bar Pakistanis from his restaurant in Pakistan, their country? The obvious r...

A measure of how 'backward' a society is to see how it portrays progressiveness. If you need to pat someone for what is considered n...

There was a knock on the door. A young man stood there assuring me, “Don’t worry, I am not selling anything”. Great. So, why was he here? ...

News stories often dumb down the very issues they are exposing. What goes 'viral' is not the news anymore, but every trivia associ...

This has become news. A BSP MP walked out of Parliament when Vande Mataram was being played at the end of the dud budget session. No one se...

(This is a fictitious account that I would have written if I were young and at Delhi on this day)    I live in Delhi and have alrea...

1. Have you cried and publicly announced it? 2. Have you derided the political insensitivity? 3. Have you said, oh, everyone is talking ...

Not many in Pakistan would have heard about their cricket team for the blind. Fewer would have known about Zeeshan Abbasi, the captain. ...

and a dash of Modi... a Kejriwal at the protest This time I am with Kiran Bedi because I know where she stands. Whatever be her persona...

Why do we describe victims of cold-blooded murder as "well-mannered and never got angry"? Is it ok for angry, rude people to get k...

If you don’t wear stilettos and still get orgasms, then pat your back. You are the last hope of science. It’s funny that ‘science-ologists...

I think we need an ombudsman to overrule the ombudsman who will be overruled by everyone who knows what an ombudsman is not supposed to do. ...

Now the lawyers and judges are fighting. If judges are sycophants, then lawyers are born to be sycophants. It is their brief, for when the...