Was browsing through the titles in Crossword and found Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet in the Science Fiction section.

Change is inevitable. It’s been hammered into our minds for a while now. And yet, when it comes for us, more often than not, it leaves us...

In 1999, I was in my second year of junior college and freelancing for The Free Press Journal. A few months later, I had shifted to The...

… send Pink Underwear. I’m so, so proud of these guys.

The sweat from a woman’s bosom. The grime off a beggar’s palm. The lint of an executive’s pocket. A money-lender’s paan-coloured saliva....

If you’re a woman in Delhi, stepping out of your house after 7:00 pm is asking for rape. If you’re a woman from Karnataka, going to the...

One of the most flattering accusations that I’ve encountered to date is that of intellectual snobbery. I know and use words that people...

There are worse ways to bring in a new year than in the company of Johnnie Walker and Johnny Depp. Hope you find ones equally pleasant....

The media is the watchdog of the society. – Probably from someplace in a Civics textbook. If you’re from Bombay, or even India, chances...

So I was going to write this really angry, bitter post about how guys in my office seem to still be stuck in puberty, but she saved me...

You know, every now and then, totally accidentally, you come across a piece of utter brilliance.

It’s been 24 hours. You’ve repeatedly shown us the same clippings of the Oberoi and the Taj in flames. You’ve made wild speculations...

I was talking to my college friend, Purple Jeans* the other day, when the age-old question popped up: Do looks matter? They do for men,...

The first one says you should marry someone you can have a good conversation with, because years later when neither of you are up for...

Picture this: Brother and I are in the car, going for a Diwali lunch with Dad and Commander Uncle. Me: (all innocent) The weather’s so...

All of us have a carefully constructed public persona. Mine is of a no-nonsense, ball-busting, passive-aggressive smart-mouth. Most men I...

So there’s this Charagh Din shirts ad, where an icky-looking firang in a rather terrible shirt is chased around some exotic foreign city...

On Friday, my phone rang. It was a South Bombay number. “Yeah, Dad?”(Now what did I do?) “So… you have a blog.” (… that I didn’t know...

So I’m guessing many of you have a rough idea about my general love of all things Sorkin. It’s not just the fact that he’s a great...

A long time ago, a father told his little daughter a different kind of bedtime story. It was the tale of a hero, who freed his people...