Cross Connections

You go out for a meal and take a picture and post it. What are you really telling the world? You drive and capture the streets, the clouds,...

Some might find it cool, the swagger and the scarf. But all these leaders at the SAARC summit in Kathmandu look like characters in a Bollywo...

What could the camel be thinking — that he is protected or that he is a threat? And do camels come in the way of camels?

"To all Indians celebrating our Independence Day, greetings from the Pradhan Sewak. I stand before you not as Pradhan Mantri (Prime ...

How can you ‘unhate’? Is it like undress or undo? Benetton is known for its use of stereotypes to display its supposed egalitarian stance....

It is lecture time. “The interest of ordinary Muslims in new India lies in embracing modernity,” says Minhaz Merchant. The headline of the e...

Angelina Jolie has gone to Pakistan to help the flood victims. Good enough. But why is she dressed as though she is visiting a dargah or...

I don’t know about you, but I am really tired of the intellectual analyses these shoe-throwing incidents have thrown up. The manner in which...

That week in England, just before I was to leave for home, I decided I had to see the London Eye. Although it was unashamedly touristy, I fe...

Such a pretty girl and I did not put up her photograph. I didn’t. It was deliberate. Almost all newspapers that carried the picture of Ishra...

I just got a box of modak . I wrote to a friend saying that these days they have fancy ones with cranberry, apricot, figs and chocolate to c...

Caption in TOI: ALL GEARED UP: A dog wears a custom-made windcheater at Marine Drive

Ah, now President Barack Obama cannot say he wouldn’t hurt a fly. Since everyone knows what he did in the studios, I found just one quote th...

Now that it will start raining...

I did not like Feroz Khan. Each time I saw him at some award function, I’d get irritated. His so-called showmanship put me off completely; h...

At a time when we are inundated with war-like situations and images flash at us in almost synchronised form and seem colour-coordinated to m...

Since I don't know much about Halloween...and I have a chocolate treat everyday, here is something that shows the fearful face of our fu...

Getting disgusted won’t get me anywhere, but once again something at a fashion show has put me off. Look, why don’t these people stick to th...

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Nooo… have been auto-suggesting this for a few days now. No writing about how I started writing this blog three years ago on this day. No se...