Of left hooks and pawnsSports enthusiasts, who are an impressionable lot, have embraced with breathless excitement a ‘new’ hybrid sport called ‘chessboxing’.
July 8, 2008
Indians join in fight against race biasOn July 1, the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China, the erstwhile British colony came alive with the most boisterous demonstration of political assertiveness.
July 4, 2008
Why Indian nerds can’t rapThis year’s National Spelling Bee in the US, that annual celebration of linguistic ratta-maar pointlessness, has, predictably, thrown up an Indian-American winner.
June 24, 2008
‘Double-digit inflation is here to stay and will get higher’But there’s no immediate risk to GDP growth,HSBC economist
Robert Prior-Wandesforde tells DNA Money
June 21, 2008
If it’s luxury, it must be IndiaFranck Muller was in Hong Kong last week to meet the swarms of people in this territory who think nothing of forking out obscene amounts of money to buy his lifestyle accessories.
June 20, 2008
Mumbai on its mindMercifully, those unrealistic dreams have since been tempered by the cold realisation that before it aspires to become a Shanghai, Mumbai has, first, to become a better Mumbai.
June 16, 2008
How to deal with ChinaThe stiff-upper-lip protocol of international diplomacy requires negotiators to, in the idiom of a Malayalam saying, Ask for a match-stick to light your bidi even when your beard is on fire.
June 10, 2008
The Sonia Gandhi syndromeHong Kong is in the grip of a videshi-swadeshi debate of the sort that resonated in Indian politics a few years ago when the BJP made much of Sonia Gandhi’s “ineligibility” for public office owing to her “foreign” origins.
June 6, 2008
The confessions of a teenage stalkerI suppose if you're above a certain age, you often have your moments when you shake your head, sigh wistfully and tell yourself, "The world isn't what it used to be".
May 31, 2008
Jet polishes Brand India imageMany Indian and Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong who travel frequently to India have at least one horror story to narrate about their experience of travelling on Air-India.
May 30, 2008
Dealing with a home-grown biasWalking gingerly along the pavement one rainy day in Delhi some years ago, I had my first face-to-face encounter with a racist bully.
May 27, 2008
Why we’re all Sichuanese todayEvery once in a while, along comes a tragedy of monumental proportions that shakes humanity’s soul to the core of its being.
May 21, 2008
Something fishy in the heart of MumbaiSeminars on the theme of ‘China and India’ may appear to some to be overdone, but they continue to be top-draw billings, reflecting the huge curiosity in each country.
May 14, 2008
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