Cross Connections

"Hello, my Internet connection has not been working for hours," I tell the service provider hotline guy, after being warned by a c...

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Mohamed Haneef and the Middle-class by Farzana Versey Countercurrents, December 22 Julian Assange has given the Indian middle-class and ...

Mirriam-Webster’s can keep its austere pragmatism to itself. I’ve got my own ideas. The dictionary has got out its list of top ten words of ...

A Pakistani commentator has come up with a Pavlovian response to how Indians salivate over Pakistan’s misfortunes and are not all smelling o...

Sitting in a coffee shop, I am reading up some news items that might be deemed serious. At a table at the far end, she sits. Her blonde hair...

For those who think they are too poor to leave anything behind, just bequeath your Spam. The Digital World is now rife with riches, in terms...

We read about the prized virgins in backward countries and are offended. We read about hymenoplasty and are offended. How about ‘priced’ vir...

I thought these long sessions, foreplay with words, the urgency to do something, shed inhibitions and garbs, the languorous moments with the...

Question: I run a cyber café. Sometimes, customers come, masturbate and ejaculate here without my knowledge. Sometimes the fluid spills onto...

No one’s really going to talk about it. Or at least get judgemental. This isn’t the Taliban, you know. Orthodox Jews can be orthodox Jews an...

This is among the worst instances of dumbing down. They are catering to everyone’s fantasy of concern - something from fashion, pop culture,...

What is going on? Alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer’s friend is none other than al-Qaida chief Osama bin...

They say people in Mumbai like to say, “You don’t know who I am?” Am wondering whether I should try it with my internet guy…would go somet...

I was going through this mental exhaustion. My Inbox did not interest me. Friends were being kind; acquaintances were sending me the usual f...