Yawn, this Indian Olympics team is so over-rated darling’ drawled the ageing socialite in a faux American accent, while trying to arch her heavily botoxed eyebrows. ‘What do you mean, ma’am?’...

Remember this hugely funny video that went viral a few months ago? There is this fraud pastor called Sebastian Martin in Vasai, Maharashtra. He claims to ‘heal’ people with serious health issues by...

A different kind of a feminist I was in Delhi for a media related workshop. Was talking to some friends in the lobby of the Haryana Sadan in Chanakyapuri, when I first noticed...

People of Karnataka revere him as 'Nadedaduva Devaru; ‘Walking God’. When you see the amount of work done by this frail 108 year old Seer in the field of education and rural development,...

‘So, why do they hate Modi so much?’   ‘Who is they’?   ‘You know, the media, the academia, assorted fat cats running institutions, writers way past-their-prime, self-professed intellectuals’.   ‘Do you not...

Dear Rajdeep Sardesai,   For years, the Indian audience had to suffer the shenanigans of you and your ilk in silence. Your snide remarks, your biased reporting, your lies, your smug, supercilious smile,...

The year was 1999. I had moved to Delhi as a new bride, carrying nothing but a suitcase full of clothes and a small wooden Mandir gifted to me by my parents, a...

Smita Sabharwal is a young IAS officer deputed to the CMO in Telengana. Known as the 'People's Officer', Ms. Smita Sabharwal is one of the youngest to have cracked the UPSC exam with...

The Battle of Paavan Khind It was a dark, dismal night. A mournful wind was howling through the narrow pass known as Ghodkhind. The date was 16th July 1660. Even the pouring July...

The year was 1836. It was early April. Bithoor, a small town near Kanpur, was already beginning to feel the heat of a cruel summer. Two young girls of about eight were staring...

Most Indians know Shivaji as a great warrior king, but there is much more to Shivaji Maharaj. Shivaji’s story would make any Superhero proud! He was born in the year 1630. His mother...