Res Gestae

I wrote this piece in 2007. Thought I'd re-circulate it because to me it still seems relevant. I've edited it. In September 1897...

Street of Dreams On a recent swing through Bombay, I came face-to-face with my past. First, on the way to the St Xavier’s College campus t...

Hatemongering… New York: It was a jaw-dropping piece of news. Gabrielle Giffords, a young Democratic member of the House of Represent...

L et It Snow… New York : Since yesterday, the weather service forecast, picked up in the local media, was a blizzard would dum...

Obama’s Problem… Chicago: It’s cold here, bracingly so. The high was minus five Celsius; late at night as I sit jet lagged on th...

It Was Easy Because We Tried Goa : Think about it for a minute. It’s New Year’s Eve at our house, Imagine . It’s easy if you try. ...

Perhaps it is about getting older. Or that the excitement has waned. Increasingly the prospect of arrival in India fills us with apprehensio...

Chicago : The Livin’ is Easy It’s summertime in this city of broad shoulders and the Grant Park Symphony is performing works by Men...

New Beginnings, Old Friendship The drive from Chicago to Cincinnati, Ohio, takes about five hours. Estelle and I did the round trip every f...