A team of senior officials from Andhra Pradesh was here in DC last week to sell their state as an investment destination to US investors and companies. Read more

I am struck by how much of a watershed people make the US to be for anyone who as much as flies over the country, leave alone lives here for any stretch of time from a day to a decade. Read more

When Michele Bachman, a Republican running for the presidential nomination, said during the last debate, just this past week, that she demands that English be the national language of the US, I was taken aback a little. Read more

I first heard of Hurricane Irene while getting ready for the drive home from Florida. Read more

As the diminutive man in a grey-green jump suit shuffled to his seat, with a US marshal gently guiding him by his elbow, a hush fell on the room, which had grown increasingly tired of court speak by now. Read more

My daughter loves New York, and wonders why we don’t stay there instead of the staid and boring Washington. Read more

I first met GPS on way from Montreal to Toronto in Canada. Those were still very early days for the gadget, and it was considered an expensive indulgence. Not everyone had one, and not everyone was convinced they needed one. Read more