Turtuk Diary

“On the night of December 13, 1971, the people of this village went to sleep in Pakistan. The next morning,...

Oasis In The Desert

Perhaps the footfalls will come once the mall's movie theatres get going, and the restaurant finally gets its...

Chain Of Smoke Rings

Terrace Farming

Khan Market's hottest new hangout is a great place to people-watch. Only the food is—well, no, it's not...

Mouth Ke Saudagar

Out with the Mwahists! Social kissing is anti-national!

The Life Of Pupa

To keep the 'other India' out of our lives is to keep out joie de vivre

King Sized

Nowhere Castle

No map mentions the place. You need to visit it to believe it exists.

A Quack Quack Here

If you're a Peking Duck fan then Delhi's China Kitchen is as good as it gets

There's A Difference

No Biscuits, No Relief

Sublime Seclusion

You Fume, I Smoke

Each cigarette is a tiny, sublime intimation of mortality—that's the seduction

A Dash Of Desert Sand

Is what makes the saral-sukh-sust Bikaneri's bhujia an addiction

Meeting Paro

Khan Market

My brother and I once pooled our money to buy James Thurber's Is Sex Necessary. Mr Bahri rang up my mother...

The Greatest Show

Middle Class Ko Gussa Kyun Aya?

The miscarriage of justice in the Jessica case has finally breached their threshold of cynicism

If You Were To Write An Epitaph...

The war of words between two heavyweights of Hindi literature.

A Schizophrenic Nation

The oh-so-enlightened Argumentative Indian and the moral police, bomb blasts, abuse, threats, court...