It's february- it's spring, what joy, what fun.... oh hell. It's tax time. Time to start looking at all your papers for the year. First you decide how much you have to pay in taxes, depending on what your expenses were. Then you decide what's left over to...

On Makar Sankranti this year, I saw something beautiful.I was walking around the newsroom, where producers were busy preparing for our coverage of all the celebrations for the day. I looked at our own channel- and it seemed to me that our screen had gone to black. It...

"Don't ask me whether you are having a boy or a girl, because I am not going to tell you," said the ultrasound specialist- a genial old friend of the family. But I said to him cheerfully, "Don't worry- I know its a girl." This was my second pregnancy...

I know I am lucky to live in Delhi- when I was a child, my mother, a bombay-ite to the core (I still don't know whether that has changed to Mumbai-ite or Mumbai-kar). Anyway to get back to my mother of western Indian origin (no that sounds wrong...