A society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Seeing the name in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how the two Hill...
The face of self-pity was universally understood.
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.
Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the way up to their elbows, to keep the tropical sun off their skins. They looked br...