First published (November 11, 2013) on my TOI blog, Freeze Frame “Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of...

First published (October 4, 2013) on my TOI blog, Freeze Frame The deserts of the Middle East are oil rich, thus the sultanates and emirates are stinking rich, and as a result both expatriate and c�...

First published (September 4, 2013) on my TOI blog, Freeze Frame Life in the capital city? For a newly married couple? It is riddled with quirks. Take it from someone who survived the city and its �...

From my TOI blog, Freeze Frame First published August 22, 2013 We live in strange times and are, perhaps, moving towards an even stranger future. These days a conversation or a picture, at times ev�...

“আজি হতে শতবর্ষ পরে কে তুমি পড়িছ বসি আমার কবিতাখানি কৌতুহল ভরে?” The greater part of my exist...

From my TOI blog, Freeze Frame This is a story about the mighty Himalayas and some grand old people from a time not so long ago but from long before Uttarakhand had come into existance. In Calcutta…...