Figuring Things Out

"Where you stand depends on where you sit" - Mile's Law Over the past two weeks I have come across two views on where In...

Last week I found myself in a bit of a fix while trying to book a ride back home late at night. Standing on a lonely roadside waiting ...

"Where do the poor in your city live? Are they consigned to shanties and ghettos, far from the 'gated communities',  or do t...

This is one obituary that refuses to leave my mindspace. It is not often that we see touching, personal tributes to politician who pa...

Over the past one week, I have been analyzing the market for air purifiers in the NCR Delhi region. It is just the right time of the ...

This is one of the most intriguing idioms I have come across. Translated from Hindi to English, it means, "To straighten one...

Its amazing how the flora and fauna changes in the Chamba Valley, as you ascend from 10,000 ft to 16,500 ft. It starts with compulsive gre...

One thing that strikes you as you travel to Kugti is the number of hydro-electric projects that have sprung up all over the Chamba Val...

I'm sitting at my desk, with my eyes on a glowing laptop screen, but my mind is still in the Himalayan mountains. Having spent th...

At Sector-105, Noida, this is quite a regular sight on any given day - vehicles waiting for their turn at the CNG filling station. C...

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

There was a showdown yesterday in our neighborhood yesterday. About 4000 homebuyers staged a protest against the Jaypee Group for its failu...

Ever so often, whenever I pick up a USB memory stick, a certain train of thought crosses my mind. "Here is a miracle device...

India Post works like magic these days. If you pack a handloom saree and send it by SpeedPost it magically transforms  enroute , into a che...

"Angamaly Diaries" is a fabulous movie. A 2017 crime-drama film in Malayalam, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, it tells ...

Strange are the ways of the Indian media. A few days ago, an Indian scientist-entrepreneur based in Japan won the country's top envir...

It is amazing how the Indian railway reservation system has evolved over the last two decades. Today I tried my hand, for the first t...

In less than a months' time, the tax system in India will take a radical shift to a comprehensive Goods and Services Tax (GST) model. ...

There is lies, damn lies and statistics . And then there is Prof. Hans Rosling . Rosling was Swedish specialist in Global Health, and a ...

The Great Himalayan Range has always been a formidable barrier that limited India's interaction with Tibet and China. Unlike th...