On the rocks

Faith, Tea, and a Parable

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:28:46 +0530

The other day, I was reporting on the Masina Hospital mob violence story. The previous night, two patients, girls aged 22 and 16, had accused three wardboys of molesting them

Salaam Bombay

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:53:12 +0530

How do you define belonging? By the Time you spend in a place? By Quality - the things you do there? By Dependance? By Love? Whichever way I look

The Season of Sin

editor@ibnlive.com — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:09:42 +0530

So, we've been getting marzipan, milk creams, kalkals, gooey chocolate cake, plum cake, rum cake, I've-died-and-gone-to-heaven-blueberry cheesecake, and all these wonderful holiday season goodies every day of the week at

Dial M for Murder, P for Perspective

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:17:44 +0530

Spoilt brat. Bad boy Bandraite. Rich kid. Alistair Pereira, sentenced to six months imprisonment for rash driving in the Carter Road case, is being hung out to dry in a

Why Men Never Ask For Directions

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:28:25 +0530

Well, I'm not exactly sure why. But I know it's true. I spend many of my waking hours on the road in a car with two men (cameraman and driver),

Why I love Deepavali

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:06:24 +0530

Never mind that this Diwali was spent looking at the cheap plastic electric lights at our office doorway - it can yet be salvaged. It is only 7 pm, and

Looking for Moriarty

editor@ibnlive.com — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:13:44 +0530

"Napoleon of crime". That's how Sherlock Holmes described his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty. Through the rotten gullies of London town, through the crooked, gnarled cat-and-mouse games people play in the

The Kandivli Local

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:55:25 +0530

I had forgotten the savagery a rough ride on the Mumbai trains can bring you into close contact with. I was an active participant in it, all through my college

Twilight Zone

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:22:36 +0530

If there's one class of people I have very little patience with, it's American desis. Call me xenophobic. And tell me it's an uneducated sweeping statement. Say it's a blinkered

Hmpf!

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:08:19 +0530

In a bad mood. ***** Want to vent about builders and the way they don't think or blink the way I do while busily proposing plans to ruin

Not Courtly Enough

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:13:13 +0530

It was stuffy, the air was still, and the robed men droned on unmindful of the somnolence of their audience. Occasionally, a mouse would scurry past - providing amusement and

My Cabbie And I

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:14:09 +0530

Mumbai's cabbies and I always have a rather stormy relationship... we tend to bicker like jaded lovers... over money, routes, and life. I think there's a reason that