Yogendra Bali said in his tribute, “I remember the whole of Bollywood used to be scared of him (Shamim), for he never spared anyone in his (film) reviews.”

The question is: would road-widening and felling intrusive trees solve the problem of rising traffic without serious efforts to curb the number of vehicles on Delhi roads?

I can understand Bollywood stars doing a door-to-door in Mumbai to collect old clothes and cash for flood or quake relief. Involving them in a poll campaign, even in India, has been little more than media hype…

I don’t know how much it cost us for the two-day stay. But room rent at the St. Francis couldn’t have been modest by any standard. I got a sense of the St. Francis price level when I discovered that a bottle of plain water is billed $7…

I was a half-hour late for the meet and found Sandeep hanging out at the parking lot, presumably wondering if I would make it at all. He had reason to be concerned because only one other member of the 38-strong IPA Yahoo Group had turned up in response to his call…

I may not lead any more active a life in Mysore. But I rarely find myself at a loose end in India, as I do in the US. Weekdays here can be bit of a drag; feel as if my life is being played out in slow motion. I feel like Siddarth’s toy train running [...]

RG was known for accurate note-taking at press conferences and getting the ‘quotes’ always right. I know this, for I have relied on RG’s notes when I couldn’t read my own scribbles…