Straight from the heart

I am writing this on my way back to India after spending a week in China.  For a country as vast and varied as China, a week is barely enoug...

 15-July-2024 The day after Wimbledon finals is a good time to reflect on Tennis . Because ….  If it's tennis, it's got to be LOVE-A...

Outside our front verandah in Chandigarh is a small garden. It has a few big trees and some small ones .   Little birds nestle on the large ...

Humans of the Cricket World Cup -1  Afghanistan vs England , 15 Oct 2023, Delhi  —————— Amongst the maze of Afghan fans at the cricket stadi...

 Today is the 14th of October 2023. In a few hours, India play Pakistan in the cricket World Cup. In Ahmedabad.  I am writing this from  Hyd...

I have been interacting with Japanese people for more than a decade. In this period, I have been to Japan multiple times and also hosted the...

Maymi Asgari is 24 . She wears a headscarf . Every night, before and after the football World Cup matches, she is outside the stadium in Qat...

Vidyaranya High School. The magical place where so much goes on yet the world knows little about it. Leave alone the world, even the city of...

11 th April 2019 :   I was amongst the 39 percent of eligible voters living in Hyderabad who voted in India's parliamentary elections...

Collecting stamps was my favourite hobby as a schoolboy , closely followed by collecting matchboxes and collecting coins , in that order .  ...

15 years It's been more than 15 years since that day.  15 years.  It was the 15 th of February , 2003. Saturday.  It was our first weeke...

Neymar's huge move to Paris definetly caused a bit of a stir in the Barcelona dressing room. It was almost certain that this would be on...

From early school and all the way up to college, I was a big tennis fan. It was my second favourite sport.  Not without reason -Numerous exc...