My childhood Kabuliwala was not trapped in the pages of a book or rolls of a film. We lived in Old Delhi, in a small bylane of Chandni Chowk near the fabled Fountain. It was called Katra Lachhusingh. Come winters and two kinds of aliens descended... Continue reading →

Those were the days when officers of Punjab bloated with authority under the prolonged President’s (read bureaucrats’) rule trembled in their trousers and repainted their car registration plates in violation of the law and in conformit... Continue reading →

"Negro equality! Fudge! How long in this government of God, great enough to make and maintain this universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp so low a piece of demagoguism as this?" These are not the words of a member of... Continue reading →

The whole world seems to be caught in this trap. When confronted with a modern-day problem, they open an ancient book for the answers. Whether you venerate a cross, a star, an idol or a cube of stone, whether you turn to the east or the west for t... Continue reading →

Kargil intruders were freedom fighters till United States told Nawaz Sharief to rein in the mischief-maker General Musharraf and forced him to withdraw the Pakistani regular army from Indian territory. Taliban were good muslims with whom Musharraf... Continue reading →

The world’s richest democracy spurns the largest of its kind and sidles up to a usurper of democracy. The history of US involvement in South Asia could fill pages of Ripley's "Believe It Or Not". In 1971, fleeing the ethnic cleansing by the... Continue reading →