All in a day’s work
Ambi ride in the UK

How many of you can boast to have been driven around in an Ambassador car in the UK? I don’t think there are too many of you out there. I was purely lucky. I had first heard of Adrian Shooter (in picture above) and his garden railway about 10 years ago in my hometown Siliguri,…
Nepal to legalise homosexuality and same-sex marriages, says law minister
“[The bill] shall be our effort to grant equal status to homosexual and heterosexual relationships,” he said in reply to questions from Scroll.in. “The Muluki Ain is 160 years old and the last serious amendment to was [made] 50 years ago. Efforts are under way to revise it and give it a new progressive face.”
Modi must deliver on his promises to Nepal
India’s relationship with Nepal, or for that matter any of its neighbours, has not been that smooth in the past few years. Somehow or the other an “arrogant” India has managed to irk its neighbours with its “big brother attitude”. During my Nepal visit some years ago, I was surprised to see how China had…
Once upon a time in Muzaffarnagar

It has been almost a year since the western UP riots. I visited Muzaffarnagar in March this year when preparations for the upcoming general elections had just begun. I spoke to many riot survivors, especially women and children, who were still languishing in large numbers in both officially designated and unofficial camps. I wrote my…