New York Calling : Part-2
So Narendra Modi has finally landed in America to much hype and excitement more than a decade after his last visit. And my mind rewinds to the year 2000...
New York Calling
Every time I take a long international flight, my admiration for seafarers increases. Think of the long months and years that the Columbus and Vasco D Gamas spent discovering...
Maha-battle
A Mahabharata is being played out in Maharashtra even before Election Day. For the BJP Shiv Sena alliance, it's all about kaun banega mukhya mantri. The saffron alliance...
Scotch On The Rocks
It appears that the nay-sayers have won the Scotland referendum: Scotland will remain a part of Great Britain after a long and contentious debate. There is no place...
Ahmedabad Calling Beijing
My grandmother always says, once an Amdavadi, always an Amdavadi! I was born in Ahmedabad, a city which for me will always be associated with wonderful childhood memories.
BJP’s diminishing returns of communal polarisation
Tuesday’s bypoll results have raised more questions for the BJP about what they have done wrong? Was it letting Adityanath and Maharaj run away with their mouths? Or was...
Walking on Water
The BJP is beset with a familiar Indian trait of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Till Narendra Modi came along and used every available opportunity to...
Feeding on Breasts
I have met Deepika Padukone just once: it was the CNN IBN Indian of the year awards last year when she won the special achievement prize for having acted...
Mr Cricket
If you wanted to know how and why Rahul Dravid scored more than 13,000 test runs and took a world record 200 plus catches, you just had to be...
A new innings
This November, I complete 26 years in journalism: it's been quite a journey and I wouldn't trade it for anything else (actually I might, if I could only have...