The Guardian has a piece on the Basant (spring) festival in Lahore .

Hindi TV ad : An unattractive young man is trying to talk to a pretty young woman. She turns away from him, but he persists. As she tries...

I've been lazy about making bread in recent years - maybe I got over being homesick for American food. But for the last two months I ha...

I thought I would show some small brass objects that I have - and, yes, more of my fabulous drawings! Friends are visiting from England. J...

A friend wanted to bring a so-called legal expert to meet us. She thought that he might be useful to us in some way -- he knew the courts ...

We had the car washed and went out; then discovered that the horn wasn't working. You can't drive without a horn here - not when bi...

The Young World (for children) section of today's The Hindu has an article about a very attractive-looking book, Going to School in Ind...

Yesterday I drove past Domino’s Pizza and saw a banner hung right in front of it that read, ‘Parampara (‘tradition’) Austerity Centre’. Wha...

I was trying to recite the last part of Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach to someone at a dinner part, and stumbling over it: Ah, love, let...

The front page of today's paper has a photograph of the aftermath of the train explosion in Iran, showing a number of bodies strewn over...

the peacock means order the fighting kangaroos mean madness the oasis means I have struck water positioning of the stamp - the despot...

Central clock tower gets its old face back ( The New Indian Express ) CHENNAI: The tallest clock in the city has got back its old face. As...

Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie writes in the Guardian about her recent visit to India (Bombay and Chennai): Stranger in a familiar land...

The pneumatic gent in this picture is wearing the head of Vinod Khanna, a Hindi film star whose heyday was the 1970's. (I don't thi...

February 17 is observed as Adyar Day by the Theosophical Society, whose world headquarters are here in Chennai (in the suburb of Adyar, in f...

After leaving Chengtu I frequently put up in temples, which were much cleaner than the inns. If the priest made unpleasant noises with drum...

There's an interview with Kamila Shamsie in today's Hindu . She's the Pakistani author of the excellent novel, Kartography . ...

I've decided draw something every day. My work is awkward, but I feel pleased with it nonetheless. So I drew the dishes after tea was ...

The National Geographic channel had a program on hijra s - the Subcontinent's transvestite-eunuchs. The group the program focussed on l...

A beautiful poem at Savoradin : Valentine's Day Green Poet's Lament