While I was in the UK recently I came across a worrying genre of woman: the desperate woman in her 30s and 40s - the new Bridget Jones (BJ) – who has not yet met her soul mate.

Unlike in the actual film, when BJ was 33, the western BJ is now aged anywhere between 36 and 45. And she is desperate to get hitched. Read more

I would like to inform everyone that the UK is no longer in visible recession and the economy appears to be back on track – there are merely lots of good lunch deals. Read more

After spotting differences between the people loitering at Heathrow airport and those in Mumbai, (the peroxided hair and scowls on faces at Heathrow vs natural hair and energy of Mumbaikers) I have decided there are remarkable similarities between village life in the UK and in India. Read more

I went to see a play on Sunday about the clash between new and old India. The play portrayed new India as college graduates aspiring to be like the west.

They were typified by the English-speaking ones working in call centres, not only adopting American names and accents, but also learning pole dancing, losing their virginity and the women wearing strapless tops and boob tubes. Read more

On the plane to Goa at the weekend I read a story in a newspaper about a 13-year-old English boy who had fathered the baby of a 15-year-old teenage girl in the UK. Alfie Patten’s voice had not yet broken and his son had been born after one night of unprotected sex. It reminded me of several things I don’t miss about the UK and like about India: the breakdown of family values being one of them. Sex education is widespread in English schools; I am not even sure if it exists in India. But, I am yet to see a teenage single mum in India. Read more