Columns

Treachery..!
The other day I was talking to someone who’d been in the real estate business, and he told me he’d
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February 13, 2023
Asleep On Their Jobs..!
“…Sleeping on your job can get you sacked says Supreme Court…” The Times of India Visited a government office yesterday
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February 10, 2023
Not Buildings or Cemeteries..!
“Bob!” he said as he opened the blueprint, “This is going to be a fourteen-story building! On the ground floor
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February 10, 2023
The Train of Life..!
It was a 1947 steam engine. I looked at the pictures of it. It was going to do a heritage
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February 10, 2023
No Difference in a Baby’s Cry..!.
“I am a very secular person!” announced Mrs Kapoori one day to the girls at home, who were her paying
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February 9, 2023
Our Country’s Strong Leaders..!
As I glanced at the papers today, all of them mentioning different leaders in our country, I came across some
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February 8, 2023
The Catfish In Your Tank..!
On a visit to a physiotherapist, an exercise she prescribed for a painful right shoulder was the putting of my
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February 7, 2023
Just Beyond The Leaf..!
“Goodbye!” I used to shout. “Goodbye dad!” they shouted back. “Goodbye” I whispered and watched the retreating figures of my
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February 6, 2023
Spreading Laughter, Through Inner Peace..!
He’s gone now, to the great beyond, but many years ago, as I returned from my walk, I used to
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February 5, 2023
Blood Stains in a Church..!
In my travels through Spain, Portugal and many other European countries I’m often told of some famous church I should
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February 4, 2023
Hindenburg and Misguided Nationalism..!
As the might of superior American artillery rains on a heroic, yet poor, poverty-stricken billionaire, our battered countryman stands valiantly
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February 3, 2023
Construction Angels or the Morgue..!
As I bid farewell to the masons, carpenters and electricians and the last of the construction workers after they had
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February 2, 2023