If smiles won votes, then the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, Arvind Kejriwal, would win the Delhi Assembly polls hands down. Gone are the days when Kejriwal was New India’s angry young man, with a mu...

Donald Trump has been duly acquitted in his US Senate impeachment trial and since then he has been on a rampage firing senior officials who testified against him. But wait, this is not about Trump and...

Some things are pre-ordained. Like bad things. Horrible things. Things you wouldn’t expect would happen to you, or around you. Hobei. I mean Cupid was Cupid but was given the shape of a cherub that ...

Kyon? Hai naa sahi? But if you disagree tell me how so. Please explain to me. I am interested. I wish to know. How so? How so are you not anti-national? You lot? You infidels. But now, that is heresy,...

When Dronacharya asks Eklavya for his right thumb, the young man offers it readily. But despair is writ all over his face. The lights go dim, the actors on stage stand still and the audience sits in s...

This time, last decade: Showing sparkle and spunk as an actress with much promise, Vidya Balan who had breezed in a few years earlier with Bhalo Theko (2003) and Parineeta (2005), had joked with me, �...

This is sometime around the last week of December. I am snuggled comfortably in layers of blankets from thick to thin. My phone is at rest too — after three continuous days of jingle bells audios, f...

Ami durbol er dikey (I am with the weaker side),” said Chapala Sundari Biswas, her eyes glaring and forefinger raised. The 80-year-old’s bold assertion in the face of conflict in the family over m...

In the years before my long absentia from the city, Ruby was not a thing on the map. The word’s only recall for Calcuttans was that it was the name of a fond footballer — the Bengali word for the ...

There were a fair few thoughts and musings darting about there, at that point. At that moment I got up and I thought I should go. If for no other reason, to merely alter position, from a stasis of sor...