Compulsive Confessions

( This appeared in Scroll) Why is the Talking Beast so beloved as a character trope? I think partly because as children we long to ...

(Since it's almost that time of the year, I dug this out of my archives. A version of this article appeared in Conde Nast Traveller in ...

Ah, the Republic Day Parade. Such a tradition. Such an excuse to sit in the winter sun and be patriotic. Such a traffic mess on the day it...

I thought about making this column a list of resolutions for 2016—since this is my last one of the year, but then I thought, “Nah. Let...

1) Long lines. 2) No lines at all and everyone just shoving their way in anyway. 3) That horrible IRCTC website and how long it takes to ...

I'm huge TV lover--I really believe the television show is the new movie--I'm fairly up-to-date on what's showing, thanks to ...

Trying to clear this backlog of links PLUS trying to put off doing some real writing. The blog is a writer's frenemy! I'm awfully s...

Hello gentle readers. I'm back after a long vacay, and besides having to give up smoking again from scratch (smoked like a fiend on h...

Foodies and Facebook seem made for each other in this digital age, as much as bread and butter and coffee and two sugars. I’m a grazer—I l...

Obviously, my favourite character in Game of Thrones is Daenerys Targaryen (followed in very close succession by Arya Stark.) It got me t...