Every city has them. Every city ignores them or treats them as a nuisance to be either ignored or disposed of as the mood takes them. They are treated with incredible cruelty — beaten, killed, strangled, abandoned on the roads, poisoned, trained to be killers, and put into fighting rinks…

A Little Rant It’s happened frequently. A writer gets popular. Then too popular. And stops writing. I don’t mean he goes off and enjoys the fruits of his labour. Playing golf. Sailing. Travelling. Boinking girls who are way too young for him. Although he probably does that too. And that’s…

Often I read the articles by people from the United States here on Medium and I find myself puzzled. These people are sensitive, intelligent, don’t seem to be racist, have an enlightened view of the world and write clearly and beautifully. …

Some years ago, when I was still working in the advertising industry, for one of India’s and the world’s largest agencies, a huge gang of us were sent to Goa for a training program. There were some 140-plus men and women there. I remember how people congregated in types. The…

We read, hear and speak people about ‘Americans’ as if they are all, exclusively and unilaterally, citizens of the United States. They’re not. Presidents, Congressmen, Senators, songwriters, scriptwriters, and the average Joe on the street in the United States, please hear the call. ‘America’ is a continent. A continent. The…