No sooner than the driver realised he had taken a wrong turn, he stopped. Lying before us, next to the Chirag Delhi flyover, were two puppies on the road. Read more

When Swami Ramdev launched Bharat Swabhiman, a political party in May 2010, I was among the 1 billion citizens of India and a handful of students of politics who felt this is not going to be a party to ignore. Read more

The Economic Survey 2010-11, an annual document that tracks the state of the Indian economy, makes recommendations and presents challenges to it, has taken a moral twist. Read more

A day after I blogged about the Irish Catholic church blaming radical individualism for the cause of the ongoing credit crisis, Deepak Chopra tweeted his interview with Playboy. Read more

That an economic crisis can and does impact political philosophies is fairly clear. From raising trade barriers to declaring currency wars, the ongoing credit crisis has seen it all. Read more

One more step towards the meeting of science and spirituality, a new study shows that if we meditate, we will can look forward to being smarter, feel calmer, and get an improved sense of self, empathy, and memory. Read more

If you are in Delhi sometime before March 10, spare an hour for Jaya Utsav to catch some culture on the go. Read more

Clearly one of the best films I’ve seen this year, Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf — the brilliant cinematic adaptation of Ruskin Bond’s short story Susanna’s Seven Husbands — is a gripping story of one woman’s tragic black humour sojourn with seven men. Read more

Their yelps kept me awake through the night. Read more

Despite all efforts to the contrary, the role and impact of religion in our daily lives is only increasing. So is urbanisation. Read more