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With the World Cup on, the country is in the grip of football mania. Every newspaper and every blogger wants to write about it. Let me jump ...

(Relax. This is the last piece in the PJ series. Author) I have had a nagging headache from morning. Sometimes, it gets quite painful and be...

During a recent stopover at the “ Landmark “ bookshop, I found that the novels, "Sloppy Seconds" and "Second Helpings” author...

It was the summer of June 2012. The population of rural India alone had crossed 1 billion. But, there had been some good tidings too, in the...

V.Gangadhar, who pens a delightful column called, “ The Slice of Life” in the Sunday magazine of The Hindu, laments in his latest piece tha...

I was to take the 6.45 am flight to Delhi. Making generous allowance for the time it takes to reach the airport in the early hours and the t...

The results of the Board Exams were to be released the next day, and sensing the butterflies in my daughter’s stomach, I felt a ‘lighter tou...

Today’s edition of The Indian Express carries an article on “Father’s Day”, authored by someone called Deepak Gharial. The article is titl...

Bill Bryson explains to his American readers what cricket is all about : “Imagine a form of baseball in which the pitcher, after each delive...

I am told by reliable sources that M.K.Stalin, Rahul Gandhi and Uddhav Thackeray are visiting Japan shortly. They have heard so much about t...

Heard Ms. Jayanti Natarajan, Congress Party MP, put up a spirited defence of the Reservation Policy, in the ‘Big Fight” program of NDTV. In ...

Dr. Oliver Sacks, author and neurologist, in his book, “The Man who mistook his wife for a hat ” writes about ‘phantom limbs” – the sensat...

As the plane reaches cruise mode and seat belt signs are switched off, pilots pompously announce from the cockpit, “ Ladies and Gentlemen, t...

As Chennai-bashers keep saying, the city has only three seasons, ‘hot, hotter and hottest”. Unfortunately, this criticism is well-founded. T...

Rahul Mahajan has been caught snorting cocaine. Misguided fool. Couldn’t he have got hold of something more pleasurable like heroin – such a...

In Cho Ramaswamy’s popular, political satire, “Mohammed Bin Thuqlak”, Thuqlak as the Prime Minister of the country offers a simple solution ...

I know that, in these internet-obsessed days, it is too much to expect you bloggers to read hard-bound volumes of old-style encyclopedias. S...

As I have written before, every time Sachin Tendulkar utters a politically correct, pseudo-humble statement in that babyish voice of his (...

Most newspapers, yesterday, carried the photo of Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, inspecting a guard of honour after signing a MOU with hi...

Sadly, I have lost the ability to watch or appreciate movies, whatever be the language. I have always found Hindi, Tamil or other Indian fi...