Actor Abhay Deol has spoken out against top stars such as Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone endorsing fairness creams. I do not know whether Deol has refused such offers in the past like Kangana Ranaut. Even if he has, it would have been much easier to say no, as I am sure his charges would…

We are a large family of eclectic food eaters; there are few universal favourites such as Baskin Robbins ice cream and chole bhature, maybe at Bikanerwala or Haldiram, served straight out of the karahi, unhealthy, fattening, heart-bursting and shimmering with oil. Excessive intake of Chole Bhature can be suicidal due to the destruction they can…

The honourable Supreme Court (SC) in its wisdom has banned the sale of liquor along national highways. This is unlikely to reduce drunken driving and accidents, as the recklessly inebriated will continue to crash their vehicles, making roads in India one of the most dangerous in the world. Some bad habits die hard, and unfortunately…

Two recent developments have caught my eye. One, endowing the tax department with more discretionary powers while making Aadhaar card mandatory to file taxes, the unfair burden of which falls on a small section of the income tax paying population; second, the incorrectly termed anti-Romeo drive in UP which seems to have degenerated into aggressive…

If demonetisation had not happened, I would have joined others in condemning the appointment of Yogi Adityanath in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have had a big say. The UP election results proved that too many mainstream analysts were quite wrong in their assessment that the demonetisation bogey would sink Modi like the Titanic….

The big news following the BJP’s victory in UP is the arrest of absconding minister Gayatri Prajapati who has been accused of rape. The custody followed a mini chor police charade by the cops who interrogated his sons and a nephew to know about his whereabouts. Homework done, the cops proudly smoked Prajapati out of…

Now, that the assembly elections are over, it is easy to analyse why Modi won and others lost. There is also a lesson for the future, particularly 2019, about the kind of subjects that should not be deployed by political outfits against Modi as they will simply not work. Lets begin with demonetisation, Modi’s attempt…

I would not say Virendra Sehwag and Yogeshwar Dutt are illiterate. In don’t know who Randeep Hooda is, so cannot comment on his literacy levels. I would, however, say that Dutt and Sehwag clearly do not understand the nuances of the English language like Shashi Tharoor does. This does not make the two sporting icons…

India’s annual budget for 2017-18 takes forward the government’s crusade against black money, a process that was sought to be elevated to a new level by the demonetisation exercise in November, though there is increasing evidence now that it was a needless measure that caused distress to too many. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s fourth Budget…