Cross Connections

I had a profoundly cathartic experience while watching 'Highway'. It was when Veera and Mahabir are in the mountains, and they ...

Narendra Modi is doing what he is programmed to do as a politician: rake up issues to show the opposition in a bad light. His la...

The guru in Pakistan I stood in the sun, eyes blinking. On that dry Delhi summer afternoon of parched throats and heat without sweat, I ...

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there" - Will Rogers - - - Life is a highway - Ra...

Most foreign tourists still come to India for some exotica and because the dollar goes a long way. Indians might fool themselves that they ...

"Go take a walk." And before I am branded as not Muslim enough, if at all, then let me assure you I am closely acquainted with ...

Why is that everytime Digvijay Singh makes or receives phone calls (or says he does) from people who are in some controversial situation the...

He licked his index finger as he turned the pages of my passport. He had to merely stamp the page to say that I had returned home to Mumbai....

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...

I will not sign a petition against Narendra Modi addressed to the 'Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia' asking His Excellency to de...

Want a fling? Visit Denmark. A three-minute long ad showed a young, blonde woman cradling a dark-skinned infant called August and saying he ...

I had been delayed, or so I thought. Spent too much time at the counter buying chocolates; I had gone to pick up a packet of face tissues. I...

Airborne 1 A massive flap erupted on Tuesday in parliament over reports that the former people-friendly president of India A P J Abdul Kalam...

Heads turned, she was luscious. Men anywhere in the world would have given her a second look. Her auburn hair, grey eyes, lightly-freckled C...

The guy who had probably discovered a bit about V. Prabhakaran a couple of years ago was giving us the news. He sounded jubilant. “We are th...

Before the Taliban: Memories of Peshawar by Farzana Versey Countercurrents, May 12, 2009 As the city is on edge, and friends are being seen ...

“Your flight has been rescheduled,” was the text message. It was followed by a voicemail. I read and heard both these the next day. My pho...