This year was S’s first real Halloween – the first time she went trick-or-treating. Last year too, she dressed up in a costume while handing out candy (she was an Angry Bird last year, …...
Mandatory rural service for doctors seems to be an idea that is gaining strength in India. The Union Health Minister has reportedly said that soon, medical students would have to spend a year in r...
One would have thought that those pathologically law-abiding Germans would follow all the rules, even the unwritten ones. The biggest unwritten one of them all in this FIFA World Cup seems to be t...
It’s a slippery slope when we start banning books and even worse, withdrawing or recalling books. Do books need to start passing through a censor soon, to determine what is acceptable and wh…...
The Polar Vortex never went away. Even now, it’s swirling over the Hudson Bay. Its home is somewhere far away, On Yukon, Barrow and Prudhoe Bay. Then why is it here, holding its sway, Spoi…...
The Polar vortex swept through most of the US this week, and like everyone else in the US, I suffered. I suppose I should feel lucky that I was not, for instance, stuck in a snowbound Amtrak train …...