What do you say when people ask you what difference do you see when you visit Guwahati after five years?...
WRITINGS ON THE WALL
Friends without life-jackets
On board Ariana: your life in their hands, your country in their heart IT was easy to call it Scariana...
Fear and learning in New York
Some quiet in J&K, few red faces in Pak: shouldn’t we get more out of Sept 11? If you lived...
Here a General, there a General
Everywhere, it’s Musharraf but Vajpayee doesn’t have to feel left out Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived in Washington on Thursday evening....
Indian graffiti
The vanishing act in Shimla The lingering image of the week is not Pervez Musharraf in his black sherwani reciting...
Chinese food, humble pie
Postcard from the edge—of irrelevance Is this China? Can this be Chinese territory? Is this one more example of the...
Stars and gripes
Harvard diary: flavours of the exam season Anybody who said the Indian examination system is oppressive had better come to...
The Punjab parable
In so many years of making a living covering troubled zones there were at least two occasions I was convinced...
Watching Generation X in Hindi heartland
The obvious question as you see Priyanka Gandhi rousing the family’s old electoral heirloom in Amethi is, why did she...
The borderline of peace
The latest buzz in the international strategic community at this moment is the idea, put forward by renowned US expert...
Anyone but India
It is a sad confession to make, but it is God’s own truth that the only reason I delayed writing...