Res Gestae

Mumbai Sucks, Bombay Rocks A global firm recently publicized a survey that found Bombay the second worst city to live in. It rated Zür...

In My Life All These Places Have a Meaning… The single dominant memory that I have of Alan Oscar (pictured above on the right)...

Shanghai:  This city, the largest in the world, was never on my bucket list. Now, I want to go back to hang out and discover the promise it...

We should have been called the Magnificent Seven. I thought of this 40 years later. There were seven of us; one died; one didn’t come. S...

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...

The Irresistible Charm of the Siren City Delhi’s Terminal 3 reflects the city’s crude unease with modernity; Bombay’s airport has the casua...

Deja Vu All Over Again… Three friends, 45 years later, sit in a palatial Khar apartment in this siren city, enjoying the cocktail hour. Di...

Blasts Show Up Television News What exactly were the television news crews after when they fanned out in the broken precincts of Bombay on t...

T he Anxiety of Freedom Panjim : The beginning is mundane. You arrive at a jetty on this capital city’s iconic waterfront, tumble out o...

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. ...

Pictures at an Exhibition Watercolors Sitting on Goa’s northern Morjim Beach one Monsoon morning, the solitary man on the horizo...