Inalienable Right to Our Piece of Space

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, on 26th June, 2010) From the US to Australia, everyone seems to have woken up suddenly to a...

Tamil Pride or Linguistic Suicide?

http://sify.com/news/tamil-pride-or-linguistic-suicide-news-columns-kg2pRMbahjh.html There's a blood bath going on at Sify.com over thi...

Son and I

As modern-day parents, we are constantly struggling to keep unrealistic ambitions for our son in check and trying to give him the best that ...

"Being sensible isn't always the best thing..."

I was so happy to find this piece on the Guardian site yesterday. An interview with Socrates , another one of those flawed greats Brazil spe...

Hexa

Why do I support Brazil? I think I have to go back nearly 30 years to the first football World Cup match I ever saw - in 1982. It was not a ...

Why do Cyclones have Female Names?

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated 12 June, 2010)  “It seems Laila is coming back,” my grandmother announces. “Who, the...

Help! The Book Needs You!

Well, I lied. In the happiness of getting a book published by Puffin, I promised to blog oftener ( Exhibit A ) but reneged. The book is taki...