Your first sight of the mountains makes you glad that you came. Your traveling track record can only be described as impulsive. Where earlier on you question this impulsiveness. You no longer do. You ...

The Hogennakal Falls, located on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, are a wondrous sight to behold! The mighty Cauvery River appears in all its majesty, unfolding its beauty and strength at Hogennakal. ...

I was eating momos (a Tibetan snack) with a friend one evening and he happened to mention that he was going to Gokarna the next day. Being the only appropriate thing to say; naturally, I said, ...

"It's the wrong bus! It's the wrong bus!" she screams. "The right bus is two streets away and leaving NOW!!!' She runs like a crazy woman to catch this bus two streets away. The bus which is supposed ...

I have been staring at the news piece which quotes Home Minister of Karnataka V.S. Acharya, as having said that homosexuality is unnatural. Another prominent political figure says that the LGBT ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has done it again. After Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul, it was the turn of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate L.K. Advani to face the brick wall that is the UP CM, when ...

On March 12, the Third Front, which is the other name for a ragtag group of nine parties ranging from the fickle JD(S), which seems to have emerged out of nowhere as a key player in this drama, to the ...

It was the first Oscars that I have ever watched. Forget it. It was the first Oscars that India itself was watching so closely. I say this with brazen alacrity, though some might question my ...

One wonders in horror where this country is heading when such cases as the brutal beating up of an eight-year-old girl by police in a village in Uttar Pradesh come to light. ...

You would think each time it happens that our country's self-styled moral brigades have taken it too far. Then they go ahead and shock you with yet another incident that proves nothing is too far for ...

I hate to be a party-pooper, especially at this momentous time in history, when Barack Obama, a Black man, has just become the 44th president of the most powerful nation on this earth. But that is ...

During the valedictory session of the Fourth Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit in Ahmedabad, two respected captains of Indian industry - Anil Ambani, chairman of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, ...

It is indeed a black day in Indian democracy. Following the unprecedented coverage of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre has proposed to amend the Cable ...

In what is getting to be a habit in the Capital, another rape case has been reported from Noida. ...

She was a lopsided smile that made the world gaze up in adoration. Those are planets that were her eyes. One bright eye and another dim, like a wink. It'll be another four years before you can see ...

It is a wet day in Bangalore , the day after that stormy Mumbai night. The five-star hotel I'm heading for is swimming in khaki. The high-powered book launch slated for that evening has been called ...

Pedigree matters. For humans and pets alike! Bangalore is no exception. I was pleasantly surprised, therefore, to see stray dogs on leashes last Sunday. ...

Inaugurations take place in this country every day. Buildings, dams, seminars, festivals, cultural programmes... you name it. But seldom does a roof get inaugurated. ...

Homemade jam is not all that nutritious, after all. Monday's Bangalore jam was manufactured by the sons of the soil, but all who dipped their toes into it got paralysed. ...

Piracy is bad. Piracy is illegal. We mouth those lines without thinking about what they imply. Who is a pirate? A farmer who shares his seeds with another? A 12-year-old who remixes a music track and ...