Bangalore|Karnataka

Some young people want me to address them on a theme that has me amused: While the global demand for Indian knowledge-workers hurls them into workplaces everywhere in the world, how are they to arm themselves to stay rooted in their culture? They have chosen me to speak who has the least advise on the [...]

I saw it from a distance, a shimmering black length across the breadth of the narrow country road. I was speeding and speaking into my phone when my eyes were taken by this long thing on which light played and made an effect of it twisting about itself like a length of loose photographic film. [...]

From the fork for Melukote and Mandya, when we turned right for Melukote, the air changed to magical. Maybe I’d anticipated it to be so. Maybe no. The temple which makes it famous is held up to the skies by an outcrop jutting edgeways on top of a hill. The stairs are steep, of large [...]

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