This, gentle reader, is an idle musing on a detail of our great, contemporary, egalitarian world
03 Dec 2021 11:48 PM
I have, in my short and happy life, been a guest at the London luxury flats, houses and the country estates of Indians and indeed Pakistanis
23 Oct 2021 1:26 AM
Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians
09 Oct 2021 12:53 AM
No, gentle reader, the supply of fuel had not been curtailed by the oil-fields of the world being flooded by climate-change tsunamis
02 Oct 2021 1:45 AM
Gavin Williamson then supported Boris Johnson for the leadership of the party and was rewarded by BoJo with the education portfolio
18 Sep 2021 2:20 AM
In 2019, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia
12 Sep 2021 2:50 AM
Did Ronald Reagan really think after seeing Attenborough’s film that Indira Gandhi was the Mahatma’s daughter?
12 Sep 2021 2:30 AM
Despite its anti-phonic spelling, English has become the language of many nations — albeit through colonisation and conquest
01 May 2021 12:00 AM
Bloody Myanmar today is not a revolution, it is an imposed change of regime, best described as a fascist military coup
10 Apr 2021 12:05 AM
In any democratic country today, patriotism ought to mean love for and loyalty to a country that defines itself
06 Mar 2021 4:43 AM
If Indians had invented the ethereal conversation device and needed an onomatopoeic name for it, they would probably have called it Dhishoom
27 Feb 2021 4:17 AM
If language is the avatar of thought, then ideas, propositions and proofs are the recipes in the avatar’s cookbook
12 Dec 2020 8:38 AM
Last week a new film on Cleopatra was announced and the Egyptian queen is to be played by Gal Gadot, leading to a Twitter storm
17 Oct 2020 9:54 AM
To retain the meaning of the couplet, the thought or metaphor that it contains, and yet deliver the English in rhythm and rhyme is hard
19 Jul 2020 3:15 PM
Events of the last few years confirm the fact that times may change but the characteristics of Britain exhibit a continuity
27 Apr 2020 12:42 AM
The one that's gone viral is that big pharmaceutical companies have spread this virus through the agency of “The Dark State”
11 Apr 2020 7:13 PM