URINATION , COFEE AND GOD I consulted a diabetologist at Washington D.C for a minor health problem which I suspected could be related to my three decades old diabetic condition. The doctor had one look at my Chennai Diabetologist’s...

HOW TO BECOME A RICH AND POWERFUL PERSON Does the name Sachin Tendulkar ring a bell ? What does the name Tejaswani mean to you ? If you feel the former is a household name and the latter is a nobody then you are truly a person belonging...

THE U.P. BIHAR IMBROGLIO STATUTORY WARNING: I INTEND MAKING POLITICALLY INCORRRECT STATEMENTS. THIS MAY NOT BE TOLERABLE TO SOME BUT IT IS MY INTENTION TO LET READERS SEE THE MANY DIMENSIONS TO THIS ISSUE. The following headline might have...

In an earlier blog titled GRINGLO I had written about the way all solutions to our problems get trapped in a gridlock. We feel paralyzed, frustrated and in a cul de sac. It is in such situations that some of us look to leave India and this is how...

Don’t laugh — this is serious money! Who denies that city guys are smart? Who says that the term city slickers is not correct? In recent years two stories of corruption have taught me that it is better for tribal politicians to spend some time in...

What’s missing in India? There is a factory in Jharkand that is coming up with Chinese collaboration. What is sad about this project is that thousands of semi and unskilled Chinese laborers are at work here even as Indian laborers are desperately...

Of Politicians, Goats and Monkeys. This is a phenomenon that I have seen frequently in Tamil families but here I wish to see this in a lighter vein. It happened that my friend Srinivasan, my colleague who was then 37 and a bachelor, came to me...

DON’T ERECT MY STATUE PLEASE I can trust my intrepid detective friend Alphonso to give me inside news even before the Indian intelligence agencies get wind of it. Last night I heard the phone at my home in Maryland ring in so...

Read Only If You Have a Burning Desire for India’s Progress My friend Gurpreet returned to India after working for twenty five-years in the West. On reading about the traumatic experience of an Indian American scientist in India — more about that...

I was chatting with my American friend Bob on a chat site when he wrote.‘Hey you Indians are the biggest idiots. Look at the way a Chief Minister in India is erecting statues of herself. I cannot conceive such a phenomenon involving an American...