Cross Connections

What made Pakistan react so vociferously to a water car? I find it interesting that despite it there was almost no talk of how they had been...

  “Alexander Cockburn no more” would sound like a terrible headline. The reality of it is as biting as his prose. To think that I just got ...

Due to the untimely demise of one of my characters, I was in mourning and could therefore not submit the story on time. This is a real not...

Rain-drenched flags. A PM who speaks about the same old things. Why should we live up to the dreams of our freedom fighters? Are we not enti...

The 'joke' and the joker's twitter page If anyone should be objecting to the Islamised cartoon of Mickey and Minnie mouse, i...

Yes. So? I don’t plead guilty to it. I am not guilty about it. The accusations have been piling up for many months now: I do not feel victi...

Castrate him? Spit in his face? Report him to the police? Would I have the courage and the presence of mind to do any of these when he has t...

“Have you been there?” “How well do you know about the place, the person, the idea…?” These queries have beset me and, I am certain, sever...

Not a huge fan of a ‘balanced picture’ nor of teetering on the side of achingly forced ‘logic’, quite by default I have ended up rubbing the...

X, Y, Z belong to three nationalities and do not live in their homelands. We first ‘met’ on the page and the monitor screen. I was a byline....

I do occasionally put up feedback received and my replies, if any, here. Many of them are those that disagree. This is not to say there have...

It really seemed as much of a big deal as any sort of feedback. Or as small as any pesky spam. So, when one fine day I got an email from the...

Sometimes, one gets the weirdest feedback. This one does not deserve to be reproduced, but I feel like a bit of pop psychology. "Sheesh...

There are some articles that get people to respond either very sharply or emotionally, as the case may be. There are far too many and I had ...

But you love me daddies… Milind Deora, pulling strings? Milind Deora may be a badey baap ka beta , but he does not have only one dad’s suppo...

December 5. My article 1992 vs. 2008: Mumbai's charge of the lightweight brigade appears in Counterpunch , a US-based publication/porta...