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A few days ago, while having my morning coffee, listening to the birds and flipping through the newspaper with one

June 8, 2025

The angels were vexed. Not just annoyed. Vexed. An old English word that belongs to Shakespearean dialogue, but perfectly suited

June 7, 2025

It was a heroic moment. Or so I thought. There I stood like some desi Hercules, staring at my treadmill.

June 6, 2025

Many years ago, while writing for the Asian Age, a paper that MJ Akbar owned, he wrote me a line

June 5, 2025

When we are called to part, it gives us inward pain… said the old hymn, which Jane hummed under her

June 4, 2025

My mother didn’t raise me on just verses from the scriptures or moral science textbooks. She also raised me on

June 3, 2025

So Bangladesh has begun a trial against Hasina for mass murder. My first reaction? “Wait, wasn’t she in power just a

June 2, 2025

Over forty-one years ago, I bought my first car. I was just in my twenties, armed with ambition, a growing

June 1, 2025

You’ll see the name often — Holy Family. On the gate of a school or the entrance of a hospital.

May 31, 2025

It was one of the strangest sights I’ve ever seen. No, not a politician paying his electricity bill, or a

May 30, 2025

My granddaughter Emory, all of two, has discovered the wonder of water. Yes, that magical, glistening, splashy liquid that has

May 29, 2025

Every time I hit a pothole; I feel I’ve just had a close encounter with a badly behaved asteroid. It

May 28, 2025

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