Penury has a million manifestations. For instance, you go to an auto repair shop, when it is raining hard, to fix a wiper that wipes only 20 percent of your windshield; that too on the diver's side.

I love the serene stillness of museums. I feel especially animated in front of statues, utensils, implements, handicrafts and other objects representing thousands of years of human history. On a short ...

On her 40 th death anniversary today, I would like to reminisce about Indira Gandhi purely on the basis of my first glimpse of her as a 13-year-old. My enduring image of Indira Gandhi is most likely ...