Res Gestae

Going Home Thirty-five years and two months is a long time to stay away from a place that you hated to leave at all. The thought crossed my...

Evergreen Optimist As I stood there shaking hands with him when he came to receive the Dada Saheb Phalke award, the years seemed to melt awa...

All Knotted Up Necktie wearers of the world unite! You have everything to lose: your stripes and paisleys, solids and patterns, silks an...

Springtime in Chicago It was unseasonably cold in Chicago for the middle of May. But then I remembered snow and an ice storm in this city o...

Caught between Elitism and Crassness On a recent flight from Goa to Delhi , I was seated across the aisle from three loutish young men. Cl...