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...

My Ghost Writer By: Rajbir Deswal “I invoke thee, my Holy Ghost Writer (G.W.) in the name of the most revered Bard of Avon who with his weird sense of the supernatural created Horatio, Duncan, the three witches. Thou are no less blest than...

Encounter with “Holypol” By:Rajbir Deswal Trying to work out a case, I felt like scratching my head. I removed may peak-cap and unconsciously rubbed my baton with it. A jinn appeared out of nothing and saluted me. He introduced himself as the...

By:Rajbir Deswal My father who was born in 1930, after the First World War and before the Second, was there informing us about the “wages of war”, in Sahir Ludhianvi’s inimitable style—Jung mashriq main ho ya magrib main; amano aalam ka...

By: Rajbir Deswal Mr. H.K.Dua, Editor in Chief of The Tribune, though admitted the other day, that the present day journalists are “hacks” who in a hurry to file their stories, tend to overlook the indulgent side of reporting, in their anxiety of...

More than what meets the eye By:RAJBIR DESWAL To be able to read between the lines means the clairvoyance to comprehend what is actually intended to be conveyed. But how about going micromillimetres distance between the canvas and the brush to...

Exam blues,clues & flues by Rajbir Deswal April may have been the “cruellest month” for T. S. Eliot, for it prompted “mixing memory and desire”; but March seems to deserve that description in respect of students, who have to write exams...

“It’s certainly been a moment of India smiling. The smiles that lighted up little Pinki’s cleft-free countenance and that of the entire Smile Pinki crew on the Hollywood red carpet had a radiance that touched many a heart closer...

For whom the bell tolls By: Rajbir Deswal Press the doorbell if you hear sounds suggesting domestic violence. This message is being conveyed through an advertisement on TV these days. It may appear to be intrusive, yet it checks the moment of extreme...

Romance in the air! By: Rajbir Deswal It was a very pleasant one and a half hours drive from Cochin to Thrissur. On being ushered into the Kerala Police Academy environs, we found ourselves ensconced in the cool climes of, what my wife then had...