I’m surprised and rather disappointed with the response to my post yesterday: French Muslims need an Anna Hazare. An entire religion is being viewed through the prism of a few manipulators, fundamentalists, extremists. Read more

Exactly 52 years ago, on March 10, 1959, an uprising took place in Tibet that changed the course of the nation. Its head, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, had to flee the country and find solace in India. 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

With a global revival in religion and the general interest in it rising with every passing crisis, I am surprised that the two credible institutions that can hold forth on such matters — education and media — have not kept pace. Read more

More than a quarter of a century after thoroughly enjoying the original 1984 Karate Kid — and watching it repeatedly on TV over the years — the 2010 Karate Kid turned out to be more than just a nostalgic walk through memory. Read more