Only Men With Well-Groomed Beards Are Qualified To GovernThe only sign of intelligence in a male politician is well-maintained facial hair. Sceptics may laugh this sentence out of any room, but…Mar 24, 2021Mar 24, 2021
India Has Managed Covid-19 Best, And Anyone Who Disagrees Is LyingI have been horrified by how people from other countries have been tracking India’s record over the past few months. They say our…Oct 31, 2020Oct 31, 2020
Please Stop Propagating The Myth About The Intelligence Of IndiansI am always amused when someone in my extended circle of acquaintances refers to my fellow Indians as intelligent. They base this on the…Oct 23, 2020Oct 23, 2020
I Am A ‘Ricebag Convert’, Apparently, And I’m Supposed To Feel Awful About ItI was recently called a ‘ricebag convert’ by some well-meaning folk on social media. This wasn’t a surprise, because the people doling out…Oct 15, 2020Oct 15, 2020
Why Are Indians So Afraid Of Single Women?Ask any single woman you know what life in India is like. It doesn’t matter which part of the country she is in, because the only thing…Sep 29, 2020Sep 29, 2020
Black Lives Matter, And India Has A Problem It Refuses To AddressTwo things disturbed me more than the lockdown I had to deal with after a pandemic was declared earlier this year. First, an announcement…Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020
Why I Believe Hilary Mantel Should Win A Booker For The Third TimePrizes can be superfluous. I say this because we all know how frustrating they can be, year after year, as debates about the best film…Jul 7, 2020Jul 7, 2020
Ilya Kaminsky Has Much To Say, For Those Who Stop To ListenOn February 2 this year, the poet Ilya Kaminsky posted the following to his Twitter account: ‘My grandmother, who was sent to Siberia for…Apr 10, 2020Apr 10, 2020
The Poets of Bombay That Time ForgotI realize now that 2004 was an awful year for English poetry in Bombay. It didn’t seem particularly terrible at the time, because it takes…Jan 8, 20201Jan 8, 20201
25 Years After Illmatic, The Classic By Nas Still Has A Lot To Tell UsSushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai loomed large in India’s consciousness back in the summer of 1994. The former was crowned Miss Universe that…Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019
