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NRIs: No emotional blackmail, please!
7 Jan 2015 11:03 PM GMTThe relationship between the mother country and the great Indian diaspora has been ambivalent at best.??With 30 million and counting, Indians living...
In the kingdom of blasé!
20 Dec 2014 11:12 PM GMTThe human race (that means you) does incredibly stupid things. A friend of mine is stuck in India because his passport has expired. You nitwit, didn’t...
Not just a doll face
29 Nov 2014 10:32 PM GMTEver seen an eagle turf an eaglet out of the nest purely because it was of the feminine gender? Heard of a cheetah who refused to teach his daughter...
Enjoy a good bite of Big Apple and come home soon
1 Oct 2014 9:17 PM GMTThe unmitigated arrogance of the returning NRI, instant coffee observations, begins at the airport where the stampede out of the aircraft is viewed...
When E for England comes before D for Dole
24 Sep 2014 10:17 PM GMTThey should take the Statue of Liberty and ship it to England. Not so much for taking in of the wretched and the poor but certainly for the less than...
Indians en route to Gulf for cricket
25 March 2014 10:53 PM GMTIndians are coming after a 14 year hiatus and they will once again play a sort of ‘international’ cricket tournament in the UAE. This hosting of a...
Okay, just letting off steam
21 March 2014 11:32 PM GMTNo one gives a whistle in the wind, Preet, get over it. Move on, find another diplomat. But hey just a sec, now we are told her kids have American and...
Missing: Custodians of our nation
20 March 2014 11:39 PM GMTA friend of mine has sent me a one liner. India’s choices for the elections are between a bluffer, a duffer and a muffler. It isn’t very funny, but it...
Modi is the flavour, rest is semantics
13 Dec 2013 11:34 PM GMTYou cannot paint over it. The Congress was decimated by the BJP which is led by the controversial but increasingly high profile Narendra Modi, like it...
Invictus down but the legacy lives on
7 Dec 2013 12:18 AM GMTI had the privilege of meeting Nelson Mandela in an elevator in Cape Town when the Khaleej Times sent me to South Africa to track the changeover from...
The Indo-Pak feel good Google gag
20 Nov 2013 10:53 PM GMTThe Google ad on India and Pakistan displaying heaps of love. It is very cleverl made ad. It takes us on what is now irrelevant and wrings false tears...
On heels and unbalanced!
14 Nov 2013 10:10 PM GMTWith the now stale as a biscuit promise of happier days to come being the sole outcome of this tryst no one on either side of the better sleeps better...