I got my second google referral, 'nasty Hindi poem.' I don't know any nasty Hindi poems, but I do know a couple of comic ones: ...

At the intersection between R. K. Mutt Road and Greenways Road is a barber shop, barely large enough for two chairs. There’s a narrow count...

The World As A Blog (via Eclogues ) What? Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world How? Weblogs.com + geocod...

The broker was a smiling Marwari, with caramel-coloured skin, brown hair. When Ramesh talked to him he kept up an echoing chorus of encoura...

India Today magazine has given its Golden Pumpkin award to fundamentalist Hindu politician Uma Bharati, who allegedly offered a birthday c...

From the Library of Congress’ Today in History , I found an exhibit of photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission , 1894-1896, t...

Flies land and take off from my knee, run aground and sweating in a bright gul mohur’s shade. It’s too hot to swat them, too hot to th...

photo by German photographer Katrin Simon, who recently held an exhibition in Mumbai. (from The Hindu )

photo by Ramesh Gandhi When I was small, I would ask my mother to sing me the Chiquita Banana song . It’s still a great work of art, in my ...

According to an article in today’s The Hindu , the power -- or perhaps charisma is a better word? -- of temple idols is enhanced by the care...

We had to be up early, so we decided to have breakfast at Woodlands. The sidewalk along the Marina was full of purposeful people taking the...

Gosh, I got my first referral from Google yesterday -- it was 'Tamil word for cellphone.' In case that person checks back again, I ...

I whipped out my box of Cheeta Fight matches and went to the kitchen to make some Sweet and Spicy Vegetable Pickle from Tarla Dalal’s cookb...

Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh by Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) 1977, India, Digital photographic print; 79 x 119 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 i...

The wind perfumes the woods with fragrant powders of pollen shaken loose from the slightly opened flowers of the jasmine creepers; here, the...

During April, which is National Poetry Month , Knopf, the publishers, send out a poem every day by email – you can sign up here . There...

I watched Lal Patthar – an old Hindi movie (1971) starring Raj Kumar and Hema Malini. He’s a Raja, she’s one of the two Ranis, and is out ...

This is the calm before Armageddon watch out for fissures in human enterprise popularly known as civilisation before the calm is broken the ...

The Meteorological Department has announced a 60% chance that the monsoon will fail this year. I remember rain... Dark clouds with brown...

I read this passage from an Iranian weblog (via Cassandra ): There was this celebration thing in North Korea, people gathering and all of a ...