Musing Ramachandra Guha’s Gandhi Gandhi's time in India ended differently than in Africa. Even before the bullets came for him, Gandhiji had begun to wonder if it wasn't time he left.
Bangalore Lockdown: Mask to Taste, Damn the Distance These actions are not going to erase the wrongs being done to people that deserve gratitude, not this pain. There's going to be a price to pay. It'll hurt.
Bangalore Businesses Might Open, With None to Man Them The migrants might come back to Bangalore, because one needs to make a living, but it would be interesting to see how we will regard one another in future.
Bangalore Some Fresh Wind In My Sail In fifty years, the Guardian says, temperatures in India would rank with Saharan Africa. My son would be eighty then. My grandson would be fifty-five.
Bangalore What's in a Name? As regards Zuriberg, they say the owner used to be a doctor in Switzerland. And Maple up the street belongs to an elder who taught physics in North America.
Bangalore Lockdown Diary: Cures and Other Responses He has a course of preventive medicine for COVID 19, to be taken twice a day, for five days. Did she pick it up? Absolutely. Are we taking it? You bet.
Bangalore Lockdown in Bangalore Lifted a Little And we're afraid, too. Because above all, there's the daunting question: What if one of our numbers tests positive?
Bangalore Lockdown Blues In Bangalore The breeze comes in now and then and soothes the face, but it smells of worry and of flagging hope. Will the lockdown end after three weeks?
Malnad Malnad Diary: March The birds kept up their pitiable cries for over a half-hour. I cannot say what was up with them. Did they sight a cat? Was one in their numbers cuckolded?
Travel Bowing In, Bowing Out I remember the scene because it reminded me of the preliminary rituals of the Indian arranged marriage.
Travel A Sorry Episode at the KLCC Could he be armed? I thought. He was not big, but he had youth and was wiry, and he had an energetic stride.
Travel Penang Post Not one revealed a hint of xenophobic resentment toward alien people arriving from all kinds of places to settle into a life of leisure in sea-facing homes. Nobody I met expressed envy at the class of accommodation the expatriates were investing in.
Travel How Old Is He? For eighty odd years the only times the old man’s hands have rested is one day each Chinese New Year.
Travel Whiling Time Away in Convivial Kuala Lumpur The movies. Morning walks in the KLCC park. Looking for vegan restaurants. Reading wherever I’ve found shade. That’s all I’ve done in KL through the year.
Travel Celebrating My Birthday Solo, in Rainy KL Evenings, I could see in the far distance the approaching rain, the dark clouds that had opened up, and were steadily closing in, shrinking the world.
Malnad A Vegan Prayer Ceremony for Chowdy This Year When he brought his machete crashing down, slicing the banana and the vibhuti, and cracking the coconut, there wasn't in this year's poojé the yellow of yolk or the goo of egg-white.
Indian Journeys The Fortune Select Grand The Fortune Select Grand is new, I'm told. There’s a bareness in its rooms, rather like in a budget hotel. You get only one key, even if you’re with spouse.
Travel Singapore: A Walk in the Padang Area I stay a distance from the monuments. This is work-hard-play-hard Singapore, and I need a moment to contextualise these sacrifices.
Travel At Hanoi's Old Quarter At the Hanoi Opera House, locals have massed again and again to mark momentous events. In 1945, Uncle Ho proclaimed a sovereign Vietnam to them.
Travel Paris and Milan: Some Shows and Sights While On Business Before the Picassos, it was possible to linger before each display, lose oneself in it, read descriptions unobstructed. Most tourists were out at the Duomo.
Travel Putting Aside Some Thoughts Before I leave For Paris I'll go to the Picasso Museum, and the Louvre Apple Store. I can't take the rainy, windy cold anymore, so I'll leave the Parisian streets to themselves.
Indian Journeys Michael Wood, and The Story of India Michael Wood is an adorable host of his BBC program, and a guest very welcome in India, brimming with respect and curiosity toward her people.
Musing Alexa, My Muse "What do you want?" Alexa said. "I want ideas to write a blog post," I said, cowed somewhat by this assured voice and tone of woman.
Indian Journeys Happy in Hampi It is 34º at daytime these September days in Hampi. You walk a lot in that place covered in rocks and boulders.
