Tobias Wolff in his Memoir, ‘This Boy’s Life’ written in the 1950s is the story of Toby [Tobias Wolf] who flees to Washington with his divorced mother Rosemary who courageously breaks free from a cheerless marriage with Roy. Desperate for a safe haven for her…
From the days of reading the bold and brazen ‘This Above All’ to meeting the legend in 1998, Khushwant Singh was the writer above all. It was a whose’s who studded dinner of the little town- with most politicians, bureaucrats and the noted families making…
I was on a mundane flight from Hyderabad to Delhi. It wasn’t one of those trips to Hyderabad but to Kochi. I had made two sane bookings for the two of us on the same flight and in the same name- my Type II genius,…
Good News is No News; No News is Bad News; And Bad News is what makes a great story. And the Indian Media [perhaps the world over as well] has been following the tenets of journalism way too “purposefully”. If I’m to pick up one…
Can an entire nation be blamed for a handful of people?“, was the despairingly controversial statement by the voluble Navjot Singh Sidhu regarding the forty slain CRPF soldiers in the Pulwama attack in J&K by a terrorist outfit within the safe havens of Pakistan. Strong…