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.
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...
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.
A society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.