The Tempers This Summer

The policeman, a thinnish fellow, stared disbelievingly at the biker and at his own sullied shin and hit the burly biker hard on the shoulder and reeled from the effort.

Thanks, Di

She's given me many pats on my back, so in a way, she's who keeps my blog going. Last fortnight she mentioned my blog twice on her page. Thanks, Di.

Hassan Town: Our Beginnings

It's all very promising. A deep trench is dug on our boundary for a high wall to stand. A micro-economy has sent out its baby roots.

Hassan: Memories and Lanes

Three or four matches were on simultaneously — quite often, a hit from one game sent the ball to the field of another.

MM Is Right

"Let's call the whole thing off," the great old man said, going all the way to the brink. "We'll lose talent, and then we'll lose some 210 billion dollars of yearly business."

Thai Writing: Sightseeing

The farang lurks in every tale, tales of family, of parent and child, of people in a complex society, and of how the farang impinges on Thai life.

The Grand Palace, Bangkok

King Rama V went and fell in love with Victorian Europe, came back and built a Windsor-like palace in his capital city.

Missed the Moon

By belief, a moon-sighting on Ugadi day would have brought a year's load of luck.

A Wedding, and the Celebrity Tax

Arun Nayar, of whom we know very less, married Elizabeth Hurley, of whom we’ve known not much more. It was an expensive wedding, topped by a celebrity tax.

A Place That Cheered Us

I said out loud that I'd build a study by the tank if I owned a plantation, but the planter didn't quite approve. "Snakes," he said. In the manner in which he said it, there appeared to be other threats as well that he wouldn't speak of.