Get this: Starting on April 7, nearly 815 million Indians will begin casting ballots in this year's parliamentary elections. Yes, 815 million! That's almost 100 million more than there were…
Varanasi or Benares, as the British called it, is known for a lot of things. It's one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, the oldest, certainly, in…
I'd never been to Goa until last week. My cousin Rahul and his wife Shraya moved to Goa several years ago but I hadn't had a chance to visit them…
Dreaming of warm, dry winter days, pishi, pani puris on the street, a wedding, speaking Bengali and dear friends. Wishing today were Saturday. Wishing I could be across the…
I just read a CNN-IBN report on the Devyani Khobragade episode that made me squirm. "Devyani's arrest," the report said, "has rattled the Indian Diplomatic Corps. "It is forcing the…
This tragedy has been forgotten by most people. It shouldn't be. It was 29 years ago on this night that tank 610 exploded at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal.…
Tarun Tejpal. Tehelka. Maybe my friends here in America have never heard those names. But in India, they stand synonymous with investigative journalism. Tehelka has lived up to its name,…
In my 30 years as a journalist, I've written a lot about victims. Many sorts of victims. Of war. Murder. Illness. Natural disasters. And man-made ones. I always try to…
