| ONE | IN THE COSMOS of the Indian establishment, the Supreme Court is a central galaxy. Its brightest stars, the senior advocates, can be seen gliding across the plaza…
(ONE) ON A FRIDAY EVENING IN JULY 2006, a six-year-old boy named Prince fell into a 60-foot-deep borewell in Haryana. By that night, almost all the national television news channels…
ONE IN EARLY SPRING 2010, a few of the most powerful men in the Indian security establishment sat down for a special meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs…
BALADEVAN RANGARAJAN moved his brown beanbag to the centre of the room, closer to the round wooden table on which lay a Macbook. He wasn’t well acquainted with the laptop’s…
IT WAS THE SECOND WEDNESDAY in October, and Jitender Chaudhury was at his post: standing in the plush lobby of The Lalit New Delhi, a luxury hotel just off…
AS UNION RAILWAYS MINISTER under the last National Democratic Alliance government, Nitish Kumar was asked a question in Parliament about the railways budget—in English. Kumar rose and began his careful…
I MET HER AT THE SAKET METRO STATION, where she bought a small, black plastic token to travel to Rajiv Chowk. After passing through two rounds of security, we reached…
An amateur profile of Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker. ROBERT MANKOFF, or Bob was a funny kid, growing up in Flushing, Queens. Not funny looking but humorous.…
An evening in Meatpacking District, New York City. All right! Here I am. Meatpacking. I don’t know why they call it that, so I will not be able to tell…
I have not posted anything since a long time. Though don’t think many people missed it. To revive this blog I would start by posting some of the pieces, published…
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