Was Jesus afraid, or reluctant to empower his disciples? Did he not rather say that anyone who believed in him would infact “perform even greater works” (Jn 14:12) than himself? Jesus empowered his disciples; he did not feel threatened by them. The explanation lies in the same farewell discourse, “I am in the Father and…

Domination, dominion, domineering – these are words to which I am inherently allergic.  To that I will now add the word “domain”, in the context of cyber domains on the World Wide Web.  I was taken aback by a recent news report that the Vatican has applied for the exclusive use and control of the…

My schooling for eight years was in a boarding school in the Kumaon Hills, now in Uttarakhand State. That was at St Joseph’s College, Nainital. The hills act like a lodestone, beckoning me back every now and then. Whenever I go there on vacation with my family, we look for offbeat locations, where there is…

Her name is Ginger Einstein Bhatt! Does it raise eyebrows? That is the name of our female dog, or rather, 7 month-old pup. Why such an odd name? Ginger brown is the colour of her four paws. Her middle name is Einstein because, like her namesake, she has bushy eyebrows, again ginger in colour. For…

“A Dirty Dozen” was a Hollywood blockbuster of yesteryears. “A Dirty Picture” is Bollywood’s latest rage. But I have selected “A Decent Dozen”. Let me tell you why.  The recent nomination of Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha (RS) has raised many questions in both sports and political circles. The Congress thought that it was…

Readers will pardon me for mixing up the punch lines of three different suiting ads – Dinesh, Only Vimal and Raymond’s The Complete Man. Unfortunately I haven’t seen the Dinesh Suiting ad for sometime, hence must be forgiven for forgetting the punch line. But I do remember two Dinesh Suiting ads, both featuring Sunil Gavaskar….