Saluting India’s farmersPolitics aside, though, I think that we - as a nation and as individuals — stand to benefit immensely from a second Green Revolution.
April 23, 2008
Breathing sweet freedomWhat distinguishes Hong Kong from the rest of China is that here you can breathe in lungfuls of freedom with every breath you take.
April 17, 2008
A nervous China slams the doorEvidently unnerved by the uprising in Tibet, and the protests that have marred the relay of the Olympics torch, China has tightened visa procedures.
April 9, 2008
Namaste Japan, Konnichiwa India!A t Yodobashi-umeda, a seven-floor mall in the heart of Osaka, the public address announcements about shopping deals are made in, among other languages, Hindi.
April 4, 2008
Chinese opinion on India’s policyUnlike in India, where everyone has an opinion on every nuanced aspect of Indian foreign policy, ordinary Chinese folks don’t often give voice to controversial matters of state.
March 26, 2008
Incredible India? Really?
“It’s all these news reports about rapes that I’ve been reading,” she said. “It’s left me wondering: is it safe for me, a single woman, to travel in India?”
March 12, 2008
Chapati, chutney — and literature!For several years now, Indian writers in English have enjoyed flavour-of-the-season status at literary festivals around the world.
March 5, 2008
A Bollywood tear-jerker in HKLi, who is 31-years-old, discovered late last year after a DNA test, that he isn’t the biological child of his ‘parents’.
February 27, 2008
Mumbai behind in Monopoly raceBut in the race to get itself listed as a valuable property market on the board game Monopoly, Mumbai is currently at a lowly 46th place, behind many leading world cities.
February 21, 2008
‘Bhumiputra’ policy has polarised MalaysiaAt their core, Mayawati’s quota system and the Malaysian muddle have pretty much the same stated social objectives and work to a large extent the same way.
February 13, 2008
HK Indians go on a ‘househunt’ in USA group of Indian investment bankers in Hong Kong, who have deservedly earned million-dollar bonuses this year, are planning to travel across small-town America.
February 6, 2008
Republic day needs retoolingIn India, the Republic Day celebration is high on ceremony, marked by an anachronistic and quite absurd — showcasing of the country’s military might.
January 30, 2008
The cup runneth overIt turns out that women in North America and Europe have over the past 20 years or so grown particularly busty: their average breast size has expanded from 34B to 36D.
January 23, 2008
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