Figuring Things Out

  If there is one word you would catch from the numerous clips from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, it is "Dawai!" Even though it ...

 It is now one year since the Russia-Ukraine war began. All through the murder and mayhem, the wanton destruction of cities and displacement...

  It seems nobody actually thought the cornered bear would attack, but last week, it did. Perhaps it was assumed that all the snarling and s...

  We ran for hours, deeper into the forest. The path had ended, but we kept running until the sky swallowed the sun and gave birth to the mo...

 The Suez was in the news last month. A single, massive ship passing through the canal got blown by the winds and ended up getting wedged ac...

  A few years ago, an old Afghan friend turned up and Delhi and we decided to meet at Lajpat Nagar. "This is AK", he said introduc...

Thousands of Indian soldiers are now perched on the freezing ridges of Ladakh. With China continuing with its expansionist "salami-slic...

Q: What is this kid so angry about? At whom is he grimacing, hurling stones and abuses? A: His favourite teacher, Don Gregorio. In be...

I just finished watching "City of Ghosts" , a film about RBSS - a group titled "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently...

It takes humor to make truth palatable. What is it that actually triggered the first World War? What lies behind USAs grand plans to ...

Each time I read a book by William Dalrymple, I wonder why our country does not produce such engaging scholar-storytellers. The book, ...

Over the past few weeks two different authors launching two very similar sounding books: "India's War" by Srinath Raghava...

Why would 16,000 women throw themselves into a giant bonfire? This is a question that has troubled me. History is replete with instanc...

"The WindMiyazaki Rises" ( Kaze Tachinu ) is perhaps the first Miyazaki movie I've seen which is actually based on real-...

Why did Yugoslavia break-up?  According to a Croat "...we had lived in peace and harmony because every hundred meters we had a po...

George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) is an interesting read. For a book written before WW-2, it has a very conte...

It is not the best of times to be a soldier at the Line of Control (LoC)... Headhunters are back in action on both sides of the border. U...