Cross Connections

It is tempting to say that isolation is almost complete when one starts ordering furniture online. It began with a casual click, and soon I...

The umbrellas are out, and the city weather is such that they only serve as accoutrement. Mumbai rains are more about tarpaulin sheets as aw...

Music is in footsteps eager to reach you, the bell ring, the sound of whispers in ear, of knuckles unknuckling lazily, the swish of clothe...

I think about the sea often. But, it struck me that when eyes are described in Hindi or Urdu poetry, there is a reference to them as possess...

Emotions can be infectious. When one listens to the sound of music, however loud, however remixed, from street corners and shanties, it i...

These days, everybody seems to be friends with everybody else. And they all find how alike they are even as they merely click on 'likes...

As with any written word, I am intrigued by signatures. My own has caused banks and other institutions much confusion simply because I '...

Still from 'Life of Pi' "He wants to see the actor's mind in a shot." Actress Tabu said this about Ang Lee wh...

Never seen the Taj Mahal like this. Pic Hindustan Times Of the first time I am supposed to have heard the azaan, there is no recollectio...

I did not learn to cook from her. I did not learn to embroider like her. I did not learn how to keep things in place like her. She would p...

Evergreen, evergreen…how many times has one heard and read the word to describe Dev Anand. When he died last night at the age of 88, stil...

Jagjit Singh was laughing into the mike. It was the laughter of disbelief - an audience so callous, organisers so unthinking that they did n...

With cucumber pads on my eyes, my head uncovered, nothing to indicate that I was doing ibaadat , I lay down to pray. I do not know many pra...

It is not always unfounded. When you fear fear itself. There is a reason beneath the skin. I have never been really paranoid, but there was ...

Joshua’s lips quivered just a bit. This was sadness that crept stealthily, crushing leaves underfoot but not before the trees had been laden...

Imagine had it not been for today 51 years ago, Maharashtra would have been playing footsie with Modi's Gujarat. On May 1, the separatio...

True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of No...

Forget the hype about extra local trains, offices working half a day. And let us please try to forget some itsy-bitsy model who wants to str...

I was on the other side, being interviewed. It wasn’t the first time but I constantly found myself asking the questions inside my head. It’s...

Would you buy a tin of cow fart only because you are missing home? As a city person, I cannot digest (oops) this, but is it really about no...