One of my favourite novels is Mary Margaret Kaye’s The Far Pavilions. An epic romance set in 19thcentury British India, the novel is, despite its unabashedly orientalistic tone, a heart-warming story of forbidden love against all odds. The aristocratic British army officer, Ashton Pelham-Martyn falls in love with the beautiful princess Anjuli and rescues her from […]
The next time someone feeds you a tired line about India or Indians being “conservative” or “backward”, here’s a rejoinder to leave them tongue-tied. One of the most popular Indian ringtones worldwide is the “condom a capella” (see report)! An imaginative composition produced by the BBC World Service Trust, this ringtone features the […]
Montreal is easily among the most happening cities I have lived in. Sure, London has cool clubs and matchless museums and New York is where most things are at. But in those better-known, better-celebrated cities, you need to be loaded to make the best of what the city has to offer (barring London’s […]
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