“She is a difficult person to describe, because she has no complexes of any kind,” said Govind Swaminadhan about 80 years ago. He was struggling to “describe” his younger sister, Padmavibhushan Capt Dr Lakshmi Sahgal nee Swaminadhan MBBS, DGO, INA. Dare I attempt a description that her brother could not? Here in Kanpur, which was…

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…