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.…

The Congress fared badly in the elections to various State Assemblies, particularly U.P.  The emergence of Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party as a powerful force in U.P. has put paid to the Congress’ hopes of taking him on board and dumping Maverick Mamata’s TMC.  With Karunanidhi’s DMK and Pawar’s NCP also playing truant, the Congress’ options…

A pedestal fan, in the heat of summer, is a cooling experience, not just for the body, but also for frayed tempers! There is another type of “pedestal fan” that actually raises temperatures and tempers to fever pitch. This other “pedestal fan” is actually a fan of an icon; so we have sports fans, movie…