The ‘it’ factor.
This is what makes a superstar stand out from the rest of us. Repeated attempts by the learned ones haven’t resulted in its decoding – yet. If…
The world knows Ani Choying Drolma as ‘the singing nun’. But Ani (honorific for ‘nun’) was at first an accidental nun.
“I did not join the monastery out of…
This is the first in an occasional series 'Telling Tales' which are stories of people from my different journeys.
On a coarse sheet of paper Koul drew some lines and…
Possible swan shot Dramatic translucent smoke billowed out of the open cockpit doors into the narrow aisle. I espied the numerous shiny consoles and knob-headed levers fading into a thickening…
Every weather pattern has a name. And used to have a timeframe as well.
The recent rains – which we all very clinically called ‘pre monsoon showers’ – used to…
Doggone day afternoons With so many factors at play, it was best not to try and analyse what caused the slight drizzle that cooled off a sweltering Delhi on an…
The Grand Trunk Road The wheeling months go round
And back I come again
To the baked and blistered ground
And the dust-encumbered plain
And the bare hot-weather trees…
Did god create the beautiful land first and then peopled it with a tribe to match? Or did He do it the other way around? A niggling question when you…
A Father's Day Special - for that great guy who first put my hand to wheels, who made travel grow on me. And who still drives with two chairs so…