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It seems especially fitting that I’m working on this column even as I am surrounded by the rampant commercialism of Valentine’s Day, a day that supposedly honours and…
It’s impossible to deny that human beings like sex, and spend an inordinate amount of time consumed with thoughts of it. Sex may have started off as an…
Salman Rushdie once said, “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” Of course, Rushdie would know all about that; he wrote…
My cat Grimalkin came to live with me in 2005 as a tiny little long-haired ginger kitten who could fit onto my palm. I immediately became obsessed with…
Nobody who knows me will be surprised that the subject of my first author review for this column is none other than Khushwant Singh. I have professed a…
It’s that time of the year again; the Silly Season is upon us, and a lot of us are probably looking to buy a gift or two for…
Yesterday, Dec. 5, Jayalalithaa Jayaraman, chief minister of the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and one of the earliest feminist influences in my life, passed away. She was an iconic…
It was a flat box, not very long, and it looked worn out. My mother took off the lid and handed it to me. Inside, nestled in faded…
If you don’t have an Indian background, and if you’ve never lived in or travelled to India, you might be forgiven for a rather one-dimensional view about Indian…
When you think of the Black Market, you might think of the illegal sale of weapons, smuggled goods, alcohol, cigarettes or even exotic pets. But in India –…