“Mere Wala Brown” By:Rajbir Deswal Talking about the “seven sins”, Shakespeare mentions a “green-eyed monster” to connote jealousy among human beings. “Gora rung” or fair complexion of the beloved may have been a subjective preference...

I received this on email from Ashok Motwani Makes thought provoking reading Can you spot ‘common sense’ in the picture here..yes its ‘black’ Here is Motwani’s mail content..... “Friends I don’t know about Lalu’s...

WITH over 275 deaths, thousands rendered homeless and millions stranded without food and water due to the cyclone Aila ripping through West Bengal and Orissa besides Bangladesh, the question of how to tackle a crisis of this scope and magnitude has...

“Motorists do double-takes when they notice that the man in the colorful spandex racing clothes has only one leg. Other bicyclists’ jaws drop when he overtakes and then passes them on steep inclines.”

By: Rajbir Deswal We met him in Mcleod Ganj. In the main market. Close to the Namgyal Monastery. By the side of momos vending stall. He was wearing branded ankle boots. Dark, cow-boyish hued. Loosely laced. Worn out. His T-shirt was also branded. Red....

By Rajbir Deswal Anyone can smell the difference between Milady’s cologne and a bottle of tharra (country made liquor) form Ghaziabad...but to name a town just by the smell of the place with ones eyes closed? Now here’s a challenge. If a Keats...

Remembering Majaz By:Rajbir Deswal “There I see the yellow moon, rising from the parapet of a mansion. Like a Muslim priest’s headgear; like a Baniya’s ledger book; like a poorman’s youth; like a widow’s charm—it’s all useless. What do...

Promised Bridge to the Girls Hostel! And many more things! By: Rajbir Deswal We then lived and studied in a mufassil town boasting of a university with a department of English. The town had been famous for harboring rain and flood waters to the...

What kind of Hindus are we who tolerate even the ‘Kanjaks’ being charged with batons–No lessons learnt? By Rajbir Deswal It seems we haven’t learnt any lessons from the incidents of stampedes and large scale killing of men and...

by Rajbir Deswal I had never known that by standards of protocol, those who have blue blood flowing in their veins — so to say the royals, are “untouchables” too. President Obama’s wife Michelle’s hugging the Queen of England, in London at...