PAVEMENT VIEWS

When we claim a piece of land as an integral part of our country, does that include the people who live on that piece of land? Nations...

There are a couple of problems I have with that argument. For one, most of the products mentioned are produced in India. They may be...

As with any competition, the favorites are already emerging and unfortunately the picture isn’t very pretty. Basically, the choices...

The telephone: In the 80s, getting a telephone in India was a major project. You applied for one and waited till hell froze over. I...

India today. The Central Bureau of Investigation is the premier investigation agency in India. Like the Supreme Court, the CBI often...

According to wiki.answers.com, there are over 1600 news channels in India – 1600!!! When 24-hour news channels were announced, I was one...

The heinous, barbaric act of rape on a Delhi bus has the entire country up in arms. About time, I would say. There have been over 400...

Two days later a user car dealer checked my car and his first words on returning from the test drive were, “What a beautiful car! Why are...

In Koodankulam, the people protest the building of a nuclear facility. The government slaps sedition cases on the victims and go ahead...

The Earth is in a constant state of change, some of it natural and some through the machinations of humans. Whatever the origin of the...

On 15th August of each year we commemorate an event that in beginning to have less and less meaning to the common man – our Independence...

The inevitable has finally happened. After a year of fasts and making noises the Anna-led civil activists have decided to enter the...

Today’s newspaper is easily the gloomiest I have seen in a long time. The main headlines read as follows – Maoists kill 76 in savage...

The year was 1992, and three young women were asked one question – “What is the first thing you would do if you were the head of your...

In 1947, as India awoke to freedom and self-governance, the world sat back and waited. Everybody waited, smug in the knowledge that India...

Hyderabad now has a greenfield airport. It is a box of glass and metal that sits at the outermost reaches of the city it serves. While...

The right to protest and make one’s voice heard is a fundamental right and ties very closely with the right to be free and the freedom of...

Over the last two weeks our TV sets have brought home news and images of racist violence against Indians in Australia. Our noise brigade,...

Cricket seems to be hellbent on shooting itself in the foot. Instead of making itself more competitive, the old men upstairs seem to...

Nominated for multiple Oscars, A. R. Rahman approaches the edge of the cliff he has been rushing towards for the better part of the last...