Last week the Prime Minister dramatically announced that red beacons would be removed from the cars of netas and babus. The gullible junta applauded. What the PM did not say was whether the hooters/ sirens on these vehicles and their escorts, with which they cut a swathe through dense traffic, would also be dispensed with.…

Readers will pardon me for my penchant for birds (both varieties)! Post the State elections I wrote “The Dove and the Crow”, followed by “From Crow to Hawk”. Now I have climbed the evolutionary ladder to call this piece “Legal Eagle”. It does have a touch of the best seller “Where Eagles Dare”. Except that…

The morning after the election results were out was chilly, not just because of the chilling results. A chill wind was indeed blowing, one that could bode ill for the country. The BJP’s electoral sweep in U.P. had chilled me to the bone, so I was trying to catch a little sun in the garden.…

My earlier piece on the State elections was titled “”The Dove and the Crow”. This corollary is “From Crow to Hawk”. I had also thought of calling it “A Mandate Betrayed”, or “The Butchering of Democracy”. All three would fit the bill. I received an unprecedented response to my previous article under reference. Most respondents…

Christian women could feel threatened by a recent article “Why Women Wear Veils in Church” written by one Susanna Spencer. It appeared in a pious journal published by a renowned pilgrim centre for hopeless cases. It was hopelessly off the mark, as I shall presently expound. Spencer claims that Christian women always covered their heads…

This title could mean two things (double entendre). Firstly, as in a race, it could mean that one was off the mark in a flash, as the starter called out, “On your marks, get set, go”. Secondly it could mean that one had gone off track or missed the mark. I mean both things –…