Flying high on cricket in India

Indian cricket stars make a lot of money, recently reinforced by the IPL auctions. Yuvraj Singh will be paid Rs 14 crore, Dinesh Karthik will pocket a cool Rs 12.5 crore for a few weeks of effort on the field. The two are not even regulars in the Indian cricket team anymore. Each minute on…

An Air Ticket to Goa

Will air travel in India become cheap again? Will typical Indian middle class families comprising noisy unruly kids and carting food neatly packed in multiple tiffin boxes, be able to afford a plane ticket again? Just a few years back this was possible. The thrifty train traveling population of India that likes to pack homemade…

An interview with Rahul Gandhi

The following is an imagined, though candid and freewheeling, interview of Rahul Gandhi, by yours truly, following the Congress leader’s categorical statement that he neither wants to-become Prime Minister of India nor marry… Sir, why live in such denial? This is an incorrect assessment. The Gandhi dynasty has never denied power to itself. As a…