If It Is India, It Is Bungling Babus. A little reported event took place in Amsterdam. This holds tremendous significance to the world and exposes the murky functioning of the medical world. A ship carrying drugs from India to a poor country was...

It is a year since the world reverberated after the fall of the once mighty Lehman Brothers and the cataclysmic events that followed. There is a lot of soul searching going on all over the world to get to the bottom of the crisis and ensure it never...

INDIA’S TOP SECRET INNOVATION—NOW EXPOSED In the wake of the Shashi Tharoor fiasco [He said that traveling in economy class or in Indian trains is like traveling in cattle trains] the minister himself was taken aback at the reaction from...

The Al Jazeera TV channel ran a half hour programme on how Indians had an obsession for fair skin. The anchor person interviewed several people as they underwent a skin makeover in a saloon. These people unhesitatingly said that white skin made a...

CONFUSED INDIANS Look at these reports emanating from Islamic countries • A teenage girl in Indonesia is ‘ caught’ drinking beer She is sentenced to 40 whiplashes • A young girl in Somalia is seen wearing jeans She faces a similar...

In recent weeks a couple of incidents told the true story of India in a manner that nothing else can. The Delhi metro crash of a bridge killed some poor people one early morning a few weeks ago. When my Quality control friend of Indian origin in the...

An incident took place two days ago when the US President Obama addressed Congress that needs to be discussed seriously in India for its many ramifications. The incident was as follows: President Obama was addressing both the...

What India teaches USA? My friend Asha works at the National Institute of Health in Washington DC. Her boss has asked her to find out how India’s powerful people have not been affected by swine flu—known here as H1N1. She asked me for my views...

THE ART OF EATING A DOSA I was at an Udipi restaurant at Connaught Place in New Delhi entertaining my American friend Gisella. . I enthusiastically plunged at the attractive looking masala dosa. Noticing me eating with my hands a young girl walked up...

IS MELODY DEAD IN HINDI FILM MUSIC? More than a decade ago a Bollywood film director threw a party on the occasion of his wedding. The invitees were few and handpicked and included Javed Akhtar and Vijay Anand who has since departed. ...